Written by If you want to delete all or some of the tables from your Access database, you can use this DAO approach. You would need a reference to Microsoft DAO 3.x object library. As shown in the example, you can use an array to store the table names, which you want to keep or delete.
Dim sTblNm As String
Dim db As Database, tbldef As DAO.TableDef
Dim i As Integer, Arr As Variant
On Error GoTo DelteTbls_Error
‘You can use an array if you want to delete or not delete specific tables
‘Arr = Array(“Table1″,”Table2″,”Table3″)
Set db = CurrentDb() ‘Set the database object
‘Set the warnings off to suppress messages
DoCmd.SetWarnings False
‘For i = 0 To UBound(Arr)
For Each tbldef In db.TableDefs
‘here you can use equal to or not equal to delete or keep specific tables
‘If Left(tbldef.Name, 4) = Arr(i) Then
‘Don’t delete System or temporary tables
If Left(tbldef.Name, 4) “MSys” And Left(tbldef.Name, 1) “~” Then
Debug.Print tbldef.Name
sTblNm = tbldef.Name
‘Delete table
DoCmd.DeleteObject acTable, sTblNm
End If
Next tbldef
‘Next i
MsgBox “Done!”
On Error GoTo 0
SmoothExit_DelteTbls:
Set db = Nothing
DoCmd.SetWarnings True
Exit Sub
DelteTbls_Error:
MsgBox “Error ” & Err.Number & ” (” & Err.Description & “) in procedure DelteTbls”
Resume SmoothExit_DelteTbls
End Sub
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