MS Access Date problem (from Java program)

Question

I have written an app. in Java that reads & writes data from a MS Access database.
I am trying to write an insert class which will add a row of data to one of my database tables - which contains Date fields.
My problem is that I can update the text fields, but not Date fields - every time I try my program throws an exception:
java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Syntax error in INSERT INTO statement
My simplified code reads as:
try {
Statement insertStatement = databaseConnection.createStatement();
String query = "INSERT INTO myTable(jobId, employeeId, date) VALUES('11', '1', " + "'13/11/2006'" + ");";
insertStatement.execute(query);
} //close, etc. etc.
If I remove the date info from the query, the program executes successfully. I appreciate my problem might be related to the formatting of the date in Access, and if not a 'proper' Java question I give my apologies.
I have attempted several formats of the date with no success or variation in the exception.
I am, however, completely stuck and would appreciate any and all help given.
Regards and thanks
David

Answer 1

I have amended my code to use a preparedStatement, but on execution I have the same problem.
My code is as follows:
PreparedStatement pstmt = null;
try {
String query = "INSERT INTO myTable (jobId, employeeId, date) VALUES(?, ?, ?);";
pstmt = databaseConnection.prepareStatement(query);
pstmt.setString(1, "11");
pstmt.setString(2, "1");
java.sql.Date sqlDate = getCurrentJavaSqlDate();
pstmt.setDate(3, sqlDate);
// execute query, and return number of rows created
int rowCount = pstmt.executeUpdate();
System.out.println("rowCount=" + rowCount);
pstmt.close();
catch, etc. etc.
Any ideas or help most welcome
Regards
David