wp-SwimTeam » MySQL http://www.wp-swimteam.org A WordPress plugin for swim team management Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:43:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Struggling with MS Access http://www.wp-swimteam.org/2008/07/18/struggling-with-ms-access/ http://www.wp-swimteam.org/2008/07/18/struggling-with-ms-access/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:22:24 +0000 Mike Walsh http://wp-swimteam.sourceforge.net/?p=45 While it isn’t really relevant to the wp-swimteam plugin, it is related to swim team.  Our team is using WinSwim for meet management which relies on Crystal Reports for generating reports.  I have been customizing reports for our team and am working on one which requires me to really poke into Access.

I have done quite a bit of work with MySQL so it is frustrating to encounter SQL constructs which Access doen’t support.  Right now I am struggling with how to determine if a table in Access already exists and if it does, I want to drop it.  What a PITA.  Access doesn’t support the DROP TABLE IF EXISTS construct which MySQL (and others) support.

If you know how to do this, please tell me how in the comments!  :-)

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