How To Execute MS Access Query with OLEDB.12

Question

I am looking for the syntax for executing MS Access named query using Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 command object.

I see lots of examples using tables but non for queries

Answer 1

The trick was to append the command 'Execute' before the query name and use square brackets around the query name.

$OleDbConn = New-Object "System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection";
$OleDbCmd = New-Object "System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand";
$OleDbAdapter = New-Object "System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter";
$DataTable = New-Object "System.Data.DataTable";

$OleDbConn.ConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=c:\temp\labmanual.mdb;";
$OleDbCmd.Connection = $OleDbConn;
$OleDbCmd.CommandText = "Execute [myQuery]";

$OleDbAdapter.SelectCommand = $OleDbCmd;

$OleDbConn.Open();
$RowsReturned = $OleDbAdapter.Fill($DataTable);


Write-Host $RowsReturned;

$OleDbConn.Close();