Question

In Microsoft Access 2003 and Visual Basic 6 I’m trying to copy a table to another access database that is password protected like this…

Select * INTO table2 IN 'database2.mdb' [;Password=TestPass] From table1

It fails with error : Not a valid password

Does the Select INTO format not accept the password with the mdb, and the password has to be in a connection string? If not, how do you reference a different connection string/database?

thanks

Answer 1

How about:

SELECT * INTO Table2 IN '' [MS Access;PWD=TestPass;DATABASE=C:\Docs\database2.mdb]
FROM Table1

These days I would be more inclined to use something like the line below, it gives more control and allows for different back-ends:

SELECT * INTO Table2 FROM [MS Access;PWD=password;DATABASE=C:\Docs\database2.mdb].Table1

You can put any valid connection string between the square brackets.

Reference: http://www.connectionstrings.com/