Question

I’m using Access as a backend for an ASP page. I’m using saved queries.
The table looks like this:

  UCall  Zone  Band
    NF4L    2    B160
    NF4L    5    B40
    NF4L    7    NULL
    AB2AB   5    B10

The query looks as follows:

Select COUNT(*) as BCnt 
From tblScore 
Where Band IS NOT NULL and UCall=[in_call];

The result should be a count of all rows for a given call where there is an entry for Band. The query run with NF4L as the parm should return 2.

The query works as expected in Access itself, but when the ASP page is run I get

"Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression 'Band IS NOT NULL and UCall=[in_call]'.

From the ASP page:

function GetBandTotals(in_call)
  conn2.BandSummary in_call, BRS
  GetBandTotals = BRS("BCnt")
end function

conn2 is an adodb connection

BRS is an adodb recordset

I’ve verified that in_call is getting there.

Answer 1

Band is a reserved word, so enclose that name in square brackets.

Also add a PARAMETERS clause to inform the db engine to expect text type for the in_call parameter. I don’t know whether that will help, but it won’t hurt.

PARAMETERS in_call Text ( 255 );
SELECT COUNT(*) AS BCnt 
FROM tblScore 
WHERE [Band] IS NOT NULL AND UCall=[in_call];