Question

I need to create a table in MS access database. Consider, ‘ConfigStructure.mdb’ being my database name and i need to create a table in this database in C#.

How can i do this? I tried with the below code but its not working.

        OleDbConnection myConnection = new OleDbConnection('Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=' + frmMain.strFilePath + '\\ConfigStructure.mdb');         myConnection.Open();         string strTemp = ' KEY Text, VALUE Text ';         OleDbCommand myCommand = new OleDbCommand();         myCommand.Connection = myConnection;         myCommand.CommandText = 'CREATE TABLE table1(' + strTemp + ')';         myCommand.ExecuteNonQuery();         myCommand.Connection.Close(); 

This is the error that i get,

'System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: Syntax error in field definition System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandTextForSingleResult(tagDBPARAMS dbParams, Object& executeResult)\r\n   at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandText(Object& executeResult)\r\n   at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommand(CommandBehavior behavior, Object& executeResult)\r\n   at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteReaderInternal(CommandBehavior behavior, String method)' 

Answer 1

Replace

string strTemp = ' KEY Text, VALUE Text '; 

with

string strTemp = ' [KEY] Text, [VALUE] Text '; 

I think the reason for this is that ‘KEY’ an ‘VALUE’ are reserved keywords in Access or SQL.