Table relationships

[dingleberry]

I inherited a database project that was authored by a co-worker when he left. I know the few key tables it depends on but it is polluted with a bunch of other tables/queries that may or may not be depended upon by the existing vital tables/queries needed to generate the report this project generates.

I am wondering if anyone knows of a way to have a report run on the project to provide information on all tables, when they were last accessed, what depends on them, etc. as a way to help me determine if I can delete some stuff from this project. The project itself is fairly 800MB so i'm trying to trim it down in size.

 

[PHV]

Have a look here:

http://mdbdoc.sourceforge.net/

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[trevil620]

Hey PHV, good point on the link you provided! I wish I had seen that 6+ years ago to save me some work! I contacted the author (John Barnett) and tested in Access-2010 for him. He said he doesn't do much Access development nowdays, but left that article up in hopes of helping interested parties.

Dingleberry, I think I know what you really want is something that will inventory every object (maybe including field names) and then you can see things like:
1. Table1.Field1 is not referenced anywhere (form ctrl, code, sql, etc.) (or it is used in FormB, Listbox2; or used in Query1)
2. No references to Tablex anywhere.
3. QueryXYZ is not used (or it is used in FormA as the recordsource)

Years ago I also inherited a 'beast' and was tasked with improving performance (every millisecond counted) so I decided to create code to build a bunch of tables to serve as a 'data dictionary'. Then searched for references of the objects. If you want to remove all the data and send me the empty database, I can try and get the dust off my old project. I think everything was working with the exception of dealing with queries that were nested more than ___ levels deep (yep, my favorite was the one query that was nested 8 layers deep -- but didn't need to be).
Good Luck,
Wayne

 

[trevil620]

I think I found just what you need.... Look at:

http://www.accessdependencychecker.com/index.php?page=download

I just downloaded it and am tinkering with it. Will show unused items.