[AccessD] Query runs and doesn't run

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Jan 9 20:29:49 CST 2018


Excellent code tool.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "stuart" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 5:13:02 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Query runs and doesn't run

Yep, that's the most likely situation.  The query is working, butt the table is not being 
displayed.


RefreshDatabaseWindow may be the solution:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa221557(v=office.11).aspx

On 10 Jan 2018 at 0:59, McGillivray, Don wrote:

> So it is.
> 
> I tested this and got a result similar to Chester's.  However, when I
> loop through all the table defs in the DB, the new table is there. 
> (That would explain why his deletion of the table doesn't fail.)  So,
> it's not that the table isn't there, but just that it doesn't appear
> in the object pane.  
> 
> There's probably a way to make it appear using code, but I found that
> using F5 in the DB container will do it.  Closing and reopening the DB
> seems to work as well.
> 
> I seem to remember having to refresh the table def collection when
> creating a table from scratch in code in order to see the result in
> the object pane.  I tried db.TableDefs.Refresh, but that didn't do it.
> 
> Maybe somebody else knows the secret sauce.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf
> Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2018 4:19 PM To: Access
> Developers discussion and problem solving
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Query runs and
> doesn't run
> 
> It's a "SELECT...   INTO [tbl Initial Pattern Factors]... "   that is
> failing.  That is  an action query.
> 
> 
> On 9 Jan 2018 at 23:17, McGillivray, Don wrote:
> 
> > I'm pretty sure that "dbs.execute" requires an action query (INSERT,
> > UPDATE, DELETE).  Won't work with a SELECT.
> > 
> > If you think about it, that makes sense; what do you expect to
> > happen with the results of that SELECT in your code?
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On
> > Behalf Of Paul Hartland via AccessD Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2018
> > 2:34 PM To: Access List <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Cc: Paul
> > Hartland <paul.hartland at googlemail.com> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Query
> > runs and doesn't run
> > 
> > Have you tried running it without the where clause, then if it works
> > try again with one of the where clauses, then the other....also when
> > I used to query dates in access I would use something like the
> > below, formatting the date
> > 
> > Where MyDate =#" &  format("06/01/1935", "dd/mm/yyyy")& "#"
> > 
> > On 9 Jan 2018 22:23, "Kaup, Chester" <Chester_Kaup at kindermorgan.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Well I did find one syntax error. Need two pairs of double quotes
> > > around PATT. Should have been ""PATT"". Still getting no results
> > > though.
> > >
> > > From: Kaup, Chester
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2018 3:50 PM
> > > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> > > Subject: Query runs and doesn't run
> > >
> > > I have the following query that run just fine from the query grid
> > >
> > > SELECT Allocations.ChildPID, Allocations.ChildPTYPE, 
> > > Allocations.PID, Allocations.PTYPE, Allocations.Date, 
> > > Allocations.Factor_1, Allocations.Factor_2 INTO [tbl Initial
> > > Pattern Factors] FROM Allocations WHERE
> > > (((Allocations.PTYPE)="PATT") AND
> > > ((Allocations.Date)=#6/1/1935#));
> > >
> > > I have the same query in VBA but it generates no output. I am at a
> > > loss as to what is going on. Here is the VBA part.
> > >
> > > Dim dbs As DAO.Database
> > > Set dbs = CurrentDb
> > >
> > > strSQL = "SELECT Allocations.ChildPID, Allocations.ChildPTYPE,
> > > Allocations.PID, Allocations.PTYPE, Allocations.Date,
> > > Allocations.Factor_1, Allocations.Factor_2 INTO [tbl Initial
> > > Pattern Factors] " & _
> > >                   "FROM Allocations " & _
> > >                   "WHERE Allocations.PTYPE='PATT' AND 
> > > Allocations.Date=#6/1/1935#;"
> > >
> > >         dbs.Execute strSQL
> > >
> > >
> > > What is even stranger is the following statement does not fail
> > > although I do not see the table in the list of tables
> > >
> > > DoCmd.DeleteObject acTable, "tbl Initial Pattern Factors"
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