PRB: "Syntax Error in FROM clause" Opening a Jet Table

ID: Q181489

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

When opening a Microsoft Jet table using ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), the program displays the following error:

Run-time error '-2147217900 (80040e14)': [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access 97 Driver] Syntax error in FROM clause.


CAUSE

The table name is a SQL reserved word, such as "Order".


RESOLUTION

Change the table name to a non-reserved word, such as "Orders" or place square brackets around the name as follows:

"[Order]"


STATUS

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.


MORE INFORMATION

When using the Microsoft Access ODBC driver from ADO, even if you specify adCmdTable as the command type, the ODBC driver still passes it back to Jet as a SQL command.

NOTE: User needs to create a DSN called "NWIND" in the ODBC Data Source Administrator for the following code to work.

WARNING: ANY USE BY YOU OF THE CODE PROVIDED IN THIS ARTICLE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. Microsoft provides this code "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Create a Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) project and add a reference to Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects.


  2. Add a form and a command button (Command1) that has the following code: 


    3. 
   Private Sub Command1_Click()
   Dim cn As ADODB.Connection, rs As ADODB.Recordset
     Set cn = New ADODB.Connection
     cn.Open "DSN=NWIND"
     Set rs = New ADODB.Recordset
     rs.Open "Order", cn, adOpenKeyset, adLockOptimistic, adCmdTable
     rs.Close
     cn.Close
   End Sub

  3. Run the project and click the command button. You will see the error.



  4. Change the rs.Open line to:


    5. 
    rs.Open "[Order]", cn, adOpenKeyset, adLockOptimistic, adCmdTable


  5. Re-run and the error does not occur.


NOTE: A similar error also occurs using Remote Data Objects (RDO), which also uses the ODBC driver, but not with Data Access Objects (DAO) which does not use the ODBC driver. The workaround of using square brackets "[ ]" around the table name also works in RDO.

(c) Microsoft Corporation 1998, All Rights Reserved. Contributions by Malcolm Stewart, Microsoft Corporation.

Additional query words: kbdse 


Keywords          : kbADO kbDatabase kbJET kbVBp600 
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0,1.5
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: February 26, 1999