Hi Roy,
Thanks for the tip. I actually just imported the table from one to the other and worked everything within access. Well, whadya know? Access figured out the special chars all by itself.
Sometimes I try to overcomplicate matters :-)
Hi Mych,
Try an INNER JOIN statement in your SQL query
I think it goes something like this:
INSERT INTO TbleChecklist (ReqNo, projectID )
SELECT TblRequirements.ReqNo, tblRequirements.projectID
FROM TblRequirements INNER JOIN tbleChecklist ON tbleChecklist.Reqno = tbleRequirements.Reqno
WHERE...
Hi Roy,
Thanks for your reply. I've tried the double single-quotes and that worked for strings like "O'Reilly" and such that when I doble the sigle quotes to "O''Reilly", it works like a charm. However, this method of doubling up doesn't work for Ampersands and commas. I was wondering if...
Hi,
I'm using a VB app to connect to an Access database via odbc. I'm trying to transfer data from one access database to another using 'company_name' as the index field for both tables. The problem is, company_name may contain special characters i.e. &, literal comma, etc. This is wreaking...
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