Best approach to append multiple Access tables together using java?

Question

Hello,
I've been given the task of retrieving data from a collection of Access files and storing them in a MySQL database. The program I wrote works fine, but the problem is that the data is broken up by months and not years. I need access to a years worth of data for my calculations to be accurate.
Therefore, I need to merge all the tables from different databases(files) for one year(12 tables).
All the tables are identical, just different values for different days.
I know how to manually append one table to another in MS Access, but that is too time consuming.
I was thinking of querying all the data of each month and merging all the result sets into one collection to be later inserted into a new MySQL table.
Any insight of how to do this efficiently would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

maccartee wrote:
I wrote a java class that will cycle through each Access file, executing a query to select all the rows in the table I need and insert them into a text file. The problem is that the sql query I use works in mysql but not access:
SELECT * into OUTFILE 'C:\\TableDump.txt' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n' FROM 8227;
You can't write such a thing in Access.
I get the following when I run it:
java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Query input must contain at least one table or query.
I think Access is telling you the right answer: it won't accept that statement.
8227 is the name of table I want.You named your table '8227'? Oh, my.
I'm not too familiar with Access, but I thought I could run valid SQL queries?You're not too familiar with SQL. This is only valid in MySQL.
Why insist on doing this in Java? There's a better way to do this. Save all the Access files as .csv output and import those into MySQL. Java's not the way to go here.
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