Insert issue with connection to MS Access

Question

Hi
New to Java and this forum, if I'm in the wrong forum for this question please direct me to the correct one, thanks.
I'm able to connect and query my table no problem but when I try to insert a record with a date field it fails. I've spent the last two days googling the internet and trying every example I can find but I cannot get this to work. Here's where I left off, assume I've made my connection to the database.
public void insertRecord()
java.sql.Date dt = java.sql.Date.valueOf("1998-12-25");
String sql = "INSERT INTO table1 ( name, date ) " +
"VALUES ( ?, " + dt + " )";
try
PreparedStatement ps = connection.prepareStatement(sql);
ps.setString(1, "Linn");
ps.executeUpdate();
catch ( Exception e )
System.err.println( "Failed to insert record." );
} // end method insertRecord
Can someone show me where I'm going wrong here? Or can someone provide me with a simple example that actually works?
My Access table has three fields:
id <autonumber>
name <text(50)>
date <date/time custom format yyyy,mm,dd>
Thanks in advance,
Linn

Answer 1

More specific
String sql = "INSERT INTO table1 ( name, date ) " +
"VALUES ( ?, #" + dt + " #)";Hi,
Thanks for the response, I tried your suggestion but
it still doesn't work for me.
Anything else I can try?
Thanks much,
LinnAh, got it! I remembered seeing a posting elsewhere that suggested putting square brackets around the field name "date", like this [date]. I don't recall why they said this was necessary though. Tried that and it looks like it's working. To complete this for anyone else who finds this thread here's the final insert command.
String sql = "INSERT INTO table1 ( name, [date] ) " +
"VALUES ( ?, #" + dt + "#)";
This worked for me.
Thanks again,
Linn