Question

I am trying to insert into a DB with has the following columns: ID (autonumber), BonderIdentifier (text), Username (text), Login (date), Logout (date).

BonderIdentifier, Username, Login is the PK.

Here is what I do:

 Public Function submitNewToDB(ByVal sessionData As BonderSession) As Boolean
    Dim cn As OleDbConnection
    Dim cmd As OleDbCommand
    Dim str As String

    Try
        cn = New OleDbConnection("Provider=microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=G:\Sean\BMSBonder3_0.mdb;")
        cn.Open()
        str = String.Format("Insert into Session ([BonderIdentifier], [Username], [Login]) values ('{0}', '{1}', '{2}')", sessionData.bonderIdentifier _
                 , sessionData.username, sessionData.login)
        cmd = New OleDbCommand(str, cn)
        cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
        cn.Close()

    Catch ex As Exception
        Return False

    End Try

    Return True

End Function

Like I said I get an insert into error and I dont know why. Nothing is in the DB yet and the table is created.

EDIT
I ran the built string in Access as such:

Insert into Session ([BonderIdentifier], [Username], [Login]) values (‘Mork’, ‘sean’, ‘2/23/2010 11:12:42 AM’)

And it works…. but in VS it doesnt.

Answer 1

That it is a syntax error means that there is something wrong with your statement (str).

What is the exact value of str when the error occurs? I am guessing that it is something like this:

Insert into Session ([BonderIdentifier], [Username], [Login]) values ('Bill O'Brien', 'some text', 'some other text')"

The ' in Bill O'Brien is the issue in my example. The parser thinks the ' closes out the text value and then sees more text instead of a comma or a )

It could also be bad data formatting that Access is not understanding as a date. I would like to see the string to identify the problem.

EDIT:

Access needs date values to be passed in with # surrounding the value, and not '.

Like this:

Insert into Session ([BonderIdentifier], [Username], [Login]) values ('Bill OBrien', 'some text', #yourdatevalue#)"