MSQuery: May Not Receive Error Message with Invalid Query

ID: Q108061

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Query for Windows, versions 1.0, 2.0
Microsoft Query for the Macintosh, version 1.0

SUMMARY

In the versions of Microsoft Query listed at the beginning of this article, when a query contains multiple errors, you will receive only one error message at a time. For example, suppose you enter the following SELECT statement


   SELECT Customer.BadField, BadFunction() FROM customer

where BadField refers to a field that does not exist in the Customer table and BadFunction refers to an undefined function in the database.

The first time you run this statement in Microsoft Query, you will only receive one error message stating that the function is undefined. Once you fix this error and run the query again, Microsoft Query will then return a second error referring to the invalid field name.

MORE INFORMATION

This behavior is by design. Microsoft Query only returns one error message at a time when it is parsing the SQL statement being executed.

Additional query words: 2.00


Keywords          : xlquery 
Version           : 1.00 2.00
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        :

Last Reviewed: April 9, 1999