I need to add a new field to an Access database table, the user has filled the table with data, so I have to add the new field but to preserve the old data.
I have found the ALTER TABLE statement, but it gives me an error (ALTER TABLE is not a valid statement)
I done this in php+mysql with "ALTER TABLE People ADD Address TEXT NULL AFTER Name" (as an example)
How can do this in VB2010?
Is it possible to check a MS Access database table with existing entries to see if one of the fields is empty.[code]....
View 4 RepliesI have a piece of code that is suppose to update the password field when the user wants to change password but I get an error line:
An unhandled exception of type 'System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException' occurred in system.data.dll
error line: cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
If BindingContext(ds, "login").Position < 0 Then
MsgBox("Database Is Empty !", MsgBoxStyle.Information, "Records Management System")
Exit Sub
End If
If ComboBox1.Text = "" Then
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I have th is little programm:
Dim dbOud As ADODB.Connection
Dim rsOud As ADODB.Recordset
Dim strCnnOud As String
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I'm looking to retrieve all the entries from one column of an access database table and copy to an array. this array i will then be randomly selecting values from it to create foootball fixtures. I'm confident of being able to achieve the random side of it but i'm struggling to get the records into the array.
View 12 RepliesI am creating a database in VB.NET for a movie rental place. I currently have three forms;
Member Information
DVD Information
Borrow DVDs
What I would like to do is when I am viewing a member's details, if I click a button 'Borrow DVD for Member', the member's ID number transfers over to the Borrow DVDs table in the Member ID which also would hold some information from the DVD Information table, but I'm sure if i can figure out how to do this firstly, I will be able to apply the same rule and work it out myself.I have been trying to use a query statement like;
INSERT INTO [Borrow DVDs].[Member ID] [IN goodstuffvideos.mdb]
SELECT [Member Information].[Member ID]
FROM [Member Information]
but that has been coming up with error codes and completely not working.
Borrow DVDs table fields are: Borrow ID, Member ID, DVD ID Number, Hiring Fee, Borrowing Limit?
DVD Information table fields are: DVD ID Number, Title, Rating, Hiring Fee, Borrowing Limit Member?
Information table fields are: Member ID, Family Name, Given Name, Address, Town/Suburb, Postcode?
The error coming up is; Error in INSERT statement. Unable to parse query text.And under that it says The query cannot be represented graphically in the Diagram and Criteria Pane.
I am trying to set autocomplete for a textbox using data from a column in a table an Access database. Some of those records in the table have no values. I have set the AutoComplete Mode property to SuggestAppend and the AutoCompleteSource property to CustomSource. When I run the application nothing happens when I type into the textbox. The dataset is called DatabaseDataSet and the table name in the database is called Simple and the specific field/colum is called SIM_TAG1
'Create customsource for tag textboxes to suggest tag terms based on what is in database
Dim oTag As New AutoCompleteStringCollection()
For Each term As DatabaseDataSet.SIMPLERow In Me.DatabaseDataSet.SIMPLE
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As you can see below in the code the " & tblName & " will work fine but instead of using the BankName (which the user cannot change because it is in the code) I would like to do the same as I did with the Table name and use a variable that gets its name from an excel spreadsheet rather that an actual name hard coded in a VBA module. I would like the variable field name entered in the Excel Spreadsheet by the user just like the table name is filled in by the user. The problem is getting the ADO SQL string ( cmd.CommandText = "ALTER TABLE " & tblName & " Add Column BankName Char(25)" ) to recognize that the value in the Variable " & fldName & " is the field name to be used.
Sub AddFieldToAccess()
Dim cnn As ADODB.Connection
Dim cmd As ADODB.Command
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'If I do this I end up with a field named BankName what I need is the name in the variable " & fldName & "
cmd.CommandText = "ALTER TABLE " & tblName & " Add Column BankName Char(25)"
cmd.Execute , , adCmdText
Set cmd = Nothing
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I'm a beginner developer using VB 2008 Express Edition and SQL Server 2008 Express. I have tried my simple problem using many different ways and also have searched the web, LINQ to SQL, SQL commands, MSDN library, MSDN Forums, 'How do I' help document, and ... but come up empty. In my simple Table.mdf (see below), I have created some tables (T1, T2, T3, ...) which none is joined together. What I try to do upon request is to get a value string of specific row and column of table?
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I can save my data to access database and in the access database field I set it to date/time.But problem is when I get the value out from the database.. the format is always month/day/year hour:minutes:seconds example today: 5/2/2011 12:00:00..How to get the value into listview becoming May/2/2011 without the hour..Here's my code to get it from database ListView1.Items(i).SubItems.Add(dt.Rows(i)(14).ToString).The second problem is.When I would like to edit, how can the datetimepicker get the listview value ? [code] info: using access 2003 (.mdb) the Date of Birth field has been set into Date/Time.
View 2 RepliesI get a Syntax Error with the following code"ALTER TABLE receipts RENAME COLUMN payees TO payee"what I am doing wrong
View 18 RepliesI have an access database called BKWThermDB1. Within than I have a table called THERMOWELL_DATA. within this table I have a column called QuoteNumber. All I want to do is search that column for an existing number so I can let the user know that this number already exists and to create a different number. I am using the code below which will tell me my Column exists. How can I alter the code to tell me if a certain number exists within that column?
Imports System.Data.OleDb
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
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I have an sql table called products, which has a data field called product defined as a text field, how do I assign a VB variable to this data field?[code]...
View 1 RepliesI am looking for some code that will allow me to set field properties of fields in a table I have just created in code using vb.net (2005). I have seen a number of articles to do this in vb6 but not vb.net.
View 2 RepliesHow can I achieve that? I usually use SQL Query in SQL Server, but it can't work in microsoft access table.
View 2 RepliesI want to add a new table in my accdb and copy the content tfrom an existing table into the new one.
Is there an easy way to do this?
i have create a software for my college which is document management. well am doing good so far up to now where i need to upgrade my database what i mean ?
in case i need to make any changes to my database i don't want to enter the database and create new table or add new fields to existing table to my current database,i would like to do that throught visual studio 2010 programaticaly. something like an additional application where i will choose my database path and the application will upgrade the database with new tables or new fields .
i would like also to ask, in order to create database,or if you already have the database and you like to just open the connection to it programaticaly and add new field ,or relate some table ,you have to work with different librarys? Like ADOX,DAO etc ? and other.?
I am trying to write a program that will access a remote database and let the user edit different tables that are in the database.My program currently connects to the database however I do not know how to select or display a particular table to the user.
View 1 Repliesi have a table name product , when i m inserting data into product i need to first check if Product Name already exist in database if yes i want to exit. basically i want to know how to get data from the database and how to access columns in asp.net .
View 4 RepliesWhat I want to do is add a new column to an existing access table which I have already created using the code below.
'Define the connectors
Dim oConn As OleDbConnection
Dim oCo
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I am trying to bind data from a text box on my form to a field in my database table. First of all I have created a DataSet, BindingSource and Table Adapter in the forms Design view, but I am having from there. Under the properties of each text box I have set the DataBindings (Text) to the field in the table under the forms instance and DataSet rather than the Projects Data Sources. I am very rusty at Visual Studio 2005 and that is all I have to work with.
View 2 RepliesI'm looking for a way to combine a field from multiple tables into a single field in a new table. Because the data populating the tables is coming from an outside source, I would prefer not to change the data in the original files. I have a separate table for each year because this is the way the data is provided. The field layout is not consistent from year to year, but each year there is a field that we'll call "score." I'd like to pull the field "score" from each year's table and have it populate a "score" column in a new table along with the year of the data so that all the years' scores are in the same place. Is there a way to do this using Visual Basic + Access?
View 3 RepliesIf I have this to read from an access database, how could I translate it to read from an oracle database with the same table/field information? I know nothing about oracle but I assume I cannot use the oledbdataadapter that I am used to when connecting with an oracle DB.
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I have two Access database, say database One.mdb and Two.mdb. I want to use VB2005 to export tblCustomer from One.mdb to Two.mdb, and replace the existing tblCustomer in Two.mdb, during run time. I basically want to simulate the export function that is available in MS Access (which can export one table from one Access database to another) with VB2005 during run time. I can think of a way by querying the table to a dataset and then delete everything on the other database before filling the table in that database with the dataset
View 1 RepliesI need to create a field in my database access throught code... I had this code in VB6 to do the job,but i'm a little confused with the way to do this in VS2008.Off course I know the way to open the database,but the way for create the field I don't know!
Dim tdf As TableDef, fld As Field, Top As TableDef
Dim nCtr As Integer
Dim bFound As Boolean
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I have already binded a data source from Access to my visual basic program but need to add a True/False column to two of the tables. I could do this manually in access and re-bind the sources but that would take up too much of my time so I wanted to know if I'm using the proper code to add a column to the data table directly from VB? Here is the code I want to try but I don't know where to place it?
OleDbCommand = OleDbCommand("ALTER TABLE tableName ADD
FieldName DataType");
(something).Connection = OleDbConnection;
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I'm not sure what goes into the "something" parenthesis and where this code must go. I already tried editting through the data designer but although it shows the column in the DataGridView, it does not save any data or the column into the actual access file.
I have a database that I would like to filter characters from anywhere in the field. Example the letter A is typed into textbox1 and in the grid every field that contains an A is show. Like dash, lap, trap, apple. Currently with the query I'm using it will just go from the beginning of the field. I get "Index was outside the bounds of the array". The code is as followed:
Dim filter1() As String
filter1 = TextBox2.Text.Split(" ")
Sheet1BindingSource.Filter = "Stationary_location like '" & filter1(0) & "' Stationary_location like '" & filter1(1) & "'"
VB 2008 using access database.
I want to add a blank value to a field in access database with vb 2008 command.
Problem 1: Here is my code, it shows conversion to string not possible errors
Private Sub btnRedThrow_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnRedThrow.Click
Dim dbCnct As New DBUtills
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notice the fifth and last value is empty. But it is not being added into the database, how do I do that?
Problem 2: Why does an additional field from my access database disappear even after I manually created the field?? (access database 2003 version, extension is .mdb) I'm using visual studio 2008
I am trying to convert my DB field OLE Object as Bitmap into a Picture Box. In my DataBase there are 2 fields
1) Text
2) OLE Object (bitmap)
I am having problems trying to get the MS Access Database to equal the picture box. What I have so far is
Private Sub FindChemical()
Dim intDataBaseIndex As Integer
Dim rowIndex As Integer
Dim FieldRow As DataRow
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I have a textbox, I want that if I write a name in the textbox it will automatically append or suggest any names that match from the TblNames field of my Access database
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