Question

I’m trying to use ADO to create several tables at once, into MS Access. Is it possible to do multiple statements in the one operation? For instance:

... // I have omitted the field details  CString sQuery = 'CREATE TABLE [Table1] (..., PRIMARY KEY ([ID])); \nCREATE TABLE [Table2] (..., PRIMARY KEY ([ID]));'; oRecordset.Open(oDatabase.m_pConnection, sQuery) 

This fails due to a 'Syntax Error in CREATE TABLE statement', although each of the create statements work on their own perfectly. Is there a way of doing this sort of thing? There will also be statements to add constraints, add indexing, etc., and I’d really like to be able to do it so that I don’t have to split up the string into separate parts.

Answer 1

ADO to MS Access does not support batch SQL statements. You need to run each statement as a separate execution.