On Thursday 11 October 2001 15:52, you wrote: > > I'm pretty sure ODBC does indeed define a db-independent means to access > the database schema. However, this functionality might not be supported > by all ODBC drivers. > > The following links may be of interest (Win32::ODBC Perl module): > > http://www.roth.net/perl/odbc/ > http://www.roth.net/perl/odbc/docs/Object/ > > The Win32::ODBC object provides some meta-data methods such as > TableList(), FieldNames(), and Catalog(). > > Otherwise, I think it's also possible to directly invoke subroutines > defined in the ODBC DLLs using Visual Basic or Visual C++ ... > > Joel If nothing else Access has "Document Database" add-in that will dump the table objects structure. It should work with any linked tables. -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com