Dim strCon As String Dim Conn as ADODB.Connection Dim strDBSource As String Dim c11 As Collection, c12 As Collection, c13 As Collection Dim c21 As Collection, c22 As Collection, c23 As Collection Dim strSQL as String Dim intTabnum as Integer Dim i as Integer, j as Integer Dim booCommon as Boolean Dim x as Integer, y as Integer ' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ' If there is some better and more elegant manner of achieving the same thing, ' please submit your code to this site. It would be very helpful to me. ' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sub GetCommonAttributes() Screen.MousePointer = 13 Set Conn = New ADODB.Connection strDBSource = "Data Source=E:\FRC\DBF;" <!! Change to your database folder !!> strCon = strDBSource & "Extended Properties=""dBASE 5.0;""" With Conn .Provider = "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Persist Security Info=False;" .ConnectionString = strCon .Open End With Set c11 = New Collection Set c12 = New Collection Set c13 = New Collection ' All the fields in the first listed tables (eithe in a listbox or a Listview ' or whatever control is taken as the base and checked in all other tables. ' When it finds a match in another table, it returns True and checking stops ' for that field in that particular table. The next field is checked. If not ' found in one table, it is removed from the collection. Finally, only the ' common Attributes will be left in the Collection strSQL = "Select * From Table1" <!! Change to your table name !!> Set rsDBF = Conn.Execute(strSQL) For i = 0 To rsDBF.Fields.Count - 1 c11.Add rsDBF.Fields(i).Name c12.Add rsDBF.Fields(i).Type 'c13.Add rsDBF.Fields(i).DefinedSize Next i rsDBF.Close ' Now check with all items in other tables, keeping c1 items constant For i = 2 To 200 <!! Get the number of tables that you want to check against !!> dSource = "Data Source=E:\FRC\DBF;" strCon = dSource & "Extended Properties=""dBASE 5.0;""" With Conn .Provider = "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Persist Security Info=False;" .ConnectionString = strCon .Open End With ' I had my tables named Table1, Table2, etc For intTabNum = 2 To 4 strSQL = "Select * From Table" & TabNum Set rsDBF = Conn.Execute(strSQL) Set c21 = New Collection Set c22 = New Collection Set c23 = New Collection For j = 0 To rsDBF.Fields.Count - 1 c21.Add rsDBF.Fields(j).Name c22.Add rsDBF.Fields(j).Type c23.Add rsDBF.Fields(j).DefinedSize Next I rsDBF.Close booCommon = False For x = 1 To c11.Count For y = 1 To c21.Count If c11(x) = c21(y) And c12(x) = c22(y) And c13(x) = c23(y) Then booCommon = True Exit For Else booCommon = False End If Next y ' Please trap error properly. I am still working on it. On Error Resume Next If boo = False Then c11.Remove (x) c12.Remove (x) c13.Remove (x) x = x - 1 End If Next x Next intTabNum ' Finally, display the common attributes in a List box Next i For k = 1 To c11.Count List1.AddItem c11(k) Next Set c11 = Nothing Set c12 = Nothing Set c13 = Nothing Set c21 = Nothing Set c22 = Nothing Set c23 = Nothing Conn1.close Screen.MousePointer = 1 End Sub