A2K Could I get advice on simple ALTER statement?

[Deano]

Hi,

I just want to add a text column to a table in my code. I can't find a
simple example of this.

dbs.Execute ("ALTER tblCCOccurrences ADD COLUMN Year1 Text;").

This gives me;

Syntax error in ALTER TABLE statement. 3293
What am I missing here?
thanks

[RoyVidar]

"Deano" <de***@mailinator.comwrote in message
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Hi,

I just want to add a text column to a table in my code. I can't find
a simple example of this.

dbs.Execute ("ALTER tblCCOccurrences ADD COLUMN Year1 Text;").

This gives me;

Syntax error in ALTER TABLE statement. 3293
What am I missing here?
thanks

"ALTER TABLE tblCCOccurrences ADD COLUMN Year1 Text(35)"

You need the TABLE keyword, and you might want a specific text field
size.

--
Roy-Vidar

['69 Camaro]

Hi, Deano.

dbs.Execute ("ALTER tblCCOccurrences ADD COLUMN Year1 Text;").

This gives me;

Syntax error in ALTER TABLE statement. 3293

It's missing the TABLE keyword. And unless you indicated exactly how many
characters of text, the new column will be 255 characters, probably not what
you want. Try the following syntax (watch out for word wrap, as this is all
one line):

dbs.Execute ("ALTER TABLE tblCCOccurrences ADD COLUMN Year1 Text(4);"),
dbFailOnError

HTH.
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"Deano" <de***@mailinator.comwrote in message
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Hi,

I just want to add a text column to a table in my code. I can't find a
simple example of this.

dbs.Execute ("ALTER tblCCOccurrences ADD COLUMN Year1 Text;").

This gives me;

Syntax error in ALTER TABLE statement. 3293
What am I missing here?
thanks

[Deano]

"'69 Camaro" <Fo**************************@Spameater.orgZERO_SP AMwrote in
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Hi, Deano.

dbs.Execute ("ALTER tblCCOccurrences ADD COLUMN Year1 Text;").

This gives me;

Syntax error in ALTER TABLE statement. 3293

It's missing the TABLE keyword. And unless you indicated exactly how many
characters of text, the new column will be 255 characters, probably not

what

you want. Try the following syntax (watch out for word wrap, as this is

all

one line):

dbs.Execute ("ALTER TABLE tblCCOccurrences ADD COLUMN Year1 Text(4);"),
dbFailOnError

Thanks for the replies, seems to be working now.