Question

For whatever reason, I’m getting the error “Invalid column name allocationStart” when trying to execute a query. This is within the dateadd function, and the column DOES exist in the database. it is a datetime.

Here is the query:

cmd.commandText = "Insert Into EmpPac 
                     (catalogIdent, empPacIdent, empIdent, allocation, 
                      quantityLimit, quantityIssued, quantityShipped, 
                      allocationMonths, sizeChartIdent, sizeNotes, nextUpdate)
                     values ( '" & catalogIdent & "', '" & intvalue_EmpPak 
                      & "', '" & empIdent & "',"&jobQuantityLimit&",'"
                      &jobQuantityLimit&"', '0', '0',"&
                      allocationMonths&", '"& sizeChartident & 
                      "', '', DATEADD(month, "&allocationMonths&
                      ", allocationStart))"
cmd.execute

Answer 1

You don’t specify what table allocationstart is in.

You need to make your INSERT source be a SELECT from your source table, not using the VALUES keyword since that expects a list of explicit values.

For instance:

INSERT INTO MyTargetTable
SELECT <stuff>, DATEADD(month, XXX, allocationstart)
FROM MySourceDataTable