Question

I get this error when trying to insert a date to my database from microsoft access

java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Undefined function 'to_date' in expression.
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.createSQLException(JdbcOdbc.java:6956)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.standardError(JdbcOdbc.java:7113)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.SQLExecute(JdbcOdbc.java:3148)
.....

here is the prepared statement that i use

addUserSt = con.prepareStatement("insert into Accounts(Username, First_name, last_name, gender, birthday, email, civil_status, password) "
                 + "values(?,?,?,?,to_date('17-January-97', 'DD-Month-RR'),?,?,?)");

here’s how i execute the statement.. dc is an object. The variables like uname, fname, lname etc are all strings.

                dc.addUserSt.setString(1, uname);
                dc.addUserSt.setString(2, fname);
                dc.addUserSt.setString(3, lname);
                dc.addUserSt.setString(4, gender);
                dc.addUserSt.setString(5, email);
                dc.addUserSt.setString(6, civil);
                dc.addUserSt.setString(7, pass);

                dc.addUserSt.executeUpdate();

I don’t know why it says that the to_date function is undefined.
Could anyone help me with this?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You need to use the CDate() function. This is Microsoft Access version of to_date().