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Disable the constraints…
Hi All, Is there any query to disable the relations in Access database.We can do it in SQL as below. Alter table table_name NOCHECK CONSTRAINT relation_name ‘disabling a foreign key relation
Alter table table_name CHECK CONSTRAINT relation_name ‘Reenabling a foreign Key relation Moreover how to find out the relation names in aaccess. In SQl we can find out thru query from a sys table.Is there any similar way for Access.
I am using VB 6.0 for programming. Looking forward for your replies. Thanks
Surjit
You might have more luck if you post this to a dedicated Access forum
There isn’t much documentation on it, but you can actually use a lot of ALTER TABLE statements in Access – through the query window, or in VBA by executing the statement from CurrentDB().Execute <SQL statement>. If there’s any syntax that Jet doesn’t support, you will find out soon enough.
Also, in case you have a split design, and you need to alter a table in the back-end MDB, you can set a DAO.Database object to the back-end MDB, and use the Execute method from this object. You may need to add a reference to the DAO library to your project, because sadly MS has been pushing ADO since Office 2000, and DAO is no longer a default reference.
There is no disable constraint in MS Access. You have to drop/re-create it. May the Almighty God bless us all!
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if you can do that with database diagrams, why do you want to do that with query?? Thanks,
Ram "It is easy to write code for a spec and walk in water, provided, both are freezed…"
Ever looked at a diagram for an Access database with lots of tables?[<img src=’/community/emoticons/emotion-1.gif’ alt=’
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To see the relationship table, you can query the MSysRelationships table. To see this table in your database window, you have to enable Options/View/System Objects option. May the Almighty God bless us all!
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