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How to export All Tables in a Microsoft Jet DB to a CSV file Turn on/off line numbers in source code. Switch to Orginial background IDE or DSP color Comment or reply to this aritlce/tip for discussion. Bookmark this article to my favorite article(s). Print this article
30-Jun-03
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ADO/OLE-DB
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			Author: John Pears 

How to export All Tables in a Microsoft Jet DB to a CSV file

Answer:
1   
2   procedure TMainForm.SaveAllTablesToCSV(DBFileName: string);
3   var
4     InfoStr,
5       FileName,
6       RecString,
7       WorkingDirectory: string;
8     OutFileList,
9       TableNameList: TStringList;
10    TableNum,
11      FieldNum: integer;
12    VT: TVarType;
13  begin
14    ADOTable1.Active := false;
15    WorkingDirectory := ExtractFileDir(DBFileName);
16    TableNameList := TStringList.Create;
17    OutFileList := TStringList.Create;
18    InfoStr := 'The following files were created' + #13#13;
19  
20    ADOConnection1.GetTableNames(TableNameList, false);
21    for TableNum := 0 to TableNameList.Count - 1 do
22    begin
23      FileName := WorkingDirectory + '\' +
24        TableNameList.Strings[TableNum] + '.CSV';
25      Caption := 'Saving "' + ExtractFileName(FileName) + '"';
26      ADOTable1.TableName := TableNameList.Strings[TableNum];
27      ADOTable1.Active := true;
28      OutFileList.Clear;
29  
30      ADOTable1.First;
31      while not ADOTable1.Eof do
32      begin
33  
34        RecString := '';
35        for FieldNum := 0 to ADOTable1.FieldCount - 1 do
36        begin
37          VT := VarType(ADOTable1.Fields[FieldNum].Value);
38          case VT of
39            // just write the field if not a string
40            vtInteger, vtExtended, vtCurrency, vtInt64:
41              RecString := RecString + ADOTable1.Fields[FieldNum].AsString
42          else
43            // it IS a string so put quotes around it
44            RecString := RecString + '"' +
45              ADOTable1.Fields[FieldNum].AsString + '"';
46          end; { case }
47  
48          // if not the last field then use a field separator
49          if FieldNum < (ADOTable1.FieldCount - 1) then
50            RecString := RecString + ',';
51        end; { for FieldNum }
52        OutFileList.Add(RecString);
53  
54        ADOTable1.Next;
55      end; { while }
56  
57      OutFileList.SaveToFile(FileName);
58      InfoStr := InfoStr + FileName + #13;
59      ADOTable1.Active := false;
60  
61    end; { for  TableNum }
62    TableNameList.Free;
63    OutFileList.Free;
64    Caption := 'Done';
65    ShowMessage(InfoStr);
66  end;
67  
68  procedure TMainForm.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
69  const
70    ConnStrA = 'Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=';
71    ConnStrC = ';Persist Security Info=False';
72    ProvStr = 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0';
73  begin
74    OpenDialog1.InitialDir := ExtractFileDir(ParamStr(0));
75    if OpenDialog1.Execute then
76  
77    try
78      ADOConnection1.ConnectionString :=
79        ConnStrA + OpenDialog1.FileName + ConnStrC;
80      ADOConnection1.Provider := ProvStr;
81      ADOConnection1.Connected := true;
82      ADOTable1.Connection := ADOConnection1;
83      SaveAllTablesToCSV(OpenDialog1.FileName);
84    except
85      ShowMessage('Could not Connect to ' + #13 +
86        '"' + OpenDialog1.FileName + '"');
87      Close;
88    end;
89  
90  end;


			
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