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Home > Forums > Programmers > DBMS Packages > Microsoft: Access Project (ADP) Forum

Trying to insert data from a table in another database

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Baesucks (Programmer)
12 May 11 16:58
I'm trying to insert data into a table in my current database from a similar table in another database.  From inside my MS-Access ADP file I'm trying to do something like...

strSQL = "INSERT INTO [myTable] SELECT [theOtherTable].* FROM [TheOtherDatabase].[theOtherTable]"

DoCmd.RunSQL (strSQL)

Obviously, I will need to create a connection to the other database, but then how do I specify that in the SQL statement?
 
Baesucks (Programmer)
12 May 11 18:52
Never Mind.  I found out it can't really be done.  Had to create an MDB file and then link the tables from both databases to append records from one to the other.
PWise (Programmer)
13 May 11 9:54

CODE

strSQL = "INSERT INTO [myTable] SELECT [theOtherTable].* FROM [theOtherTable] IN 'Drive\path\myotherdb.mdb'"

or
sqlstr ="INSERT INTO [myTable] SELECT [theOtherTable].* FROM [theOtherTable]
IN '' [ODBC;DRIVER=SQL Server;SERVER=Servername;DATABASE=dbname]"
lameid (Programmer)
19 May 11 21:04
You could create a Linked Server in SQL Server in order to run a query across servers...  Most likely what you are doing is a one off and is perhaps more easily accomplished as you did linking both tables.

Any way the FQN for a table in another SQL server once you have linked it looks like...

[Server/Instance_Name].Database_Name.Schema_Name.Table_Name
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