How tell if a database has any linked tables?

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mscertified - 18 Jan 2005 20:27 GMT

I've written a program (in Access) that reads other Access databases. I need
to tell if a given database contains any linkjed tables (I'm attempting to
detect if the database is a front or back end database). How can I do this. I
cannot use the CurrentProject collections as that is my database and not the
ones I am opening. The solution must work in Access 97 and Access 2000. Any
ideas?

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Brendan Reynolds - 18 Jan 2005 20:53 GMT

You don't say how you're 'reading' the other MDB. If you already have a
Database object, you could modify the following example to accept that
Database object, rather than opening another one ...

Public Function HasLinkedTables(ByVal strDataBase As String) As Boolean

Dim db As DAO.Database
Dim tdf As DAO.TableDef

Set db = DBEngine.OpenDatabase(strDataBase)
For Each tdf In db.TableDefs
If Len(tdf.Connect) > 0 Then
HasLinkedTables = True
Exit For
End If
Next tdf
db.Close

End Function

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> I've written a program (in Access) that reads other Access databases. I
> need
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> Any
> ideas?

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