[AccessD] A2K and .Net

Yes, they will fail. This is not unique to .NET. Simply put, if you open
a Jet database using DAO, ADO, or ADO.NET, any queries that reference
VBA functions like DateAdd will fail. 

Your earlier thinking was correct: to get DateAdd to work in a query,
you would need Access installed on the machine, and would have to open
it via automation. The Access application instance would then provide
the VBA environment required to make sense of VBA function calls.

.NET won't interpret the function calls, nor can you substitute .NET
functions. This is because your ADO calls are going to a separate Jet
server instance, which has no knowledge of the context in which it is
called. 

In short, you are limited to native Jet SQL for your queries. This
includes the aggregate functions like Sum and Avg, mathematical
operators and string concatenation, and the expressions Between, In and
Like. You may also be able to extend your reach by using the ODBC Scalar
functions, although I haven't tried this.

-Ken


-----Original Message-----
From: Griffiths, Richard [mailto:R.Griffiths at bury.gov.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 8:21 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] A2K and .Net

Do you know if my queries (stored procedures) that use say dateadd (ie
hard coded into the query) will fail?