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Hi all,
I've created a website the is using SQL 2000/SQL2005 as the back end and I've been tasked to take the catalog I've build for the website and allow it to be ran on a CD. So With the CD version of the website I'm using a Access 2003 database, but for some reason my T-SQL queries wont work with Access. I have a bit field in my SQL database that I use as an Active flag. Access use a "Yes/No" field for this and I'm not sure why the query isn't working. I did notice that Access uses -1/0 and not 1/0, so I changed my query to reflect this:

<br />SELECT     * <br />FROM tblWeb_E_Catalog_Categories <br />WHERE (Active) = -1) <br />

Is there any reason why this wouldn't work?

Posted 18-Jun-09 4:07am

DJ Matthews

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David Mujica · Answer 1 · 2009-06-18T04:38:00

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I see two closing parenthesis )) and only 1 open parenthesis. (

Posted 18-Jun-09 4:38am

David Mujica

Luc Pattyn · Answer 2 · 2009-06-18T04:50:00

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Hi,

... WHERE NOT (Active = 0) might work for both database systems.

:)

Posted 18-Jun-09 4:50am

Luc Pattyn

dpminusa · Answer 3 · 2009-11-16T23:21:00

"I have a bit field in my SQL database " what is the data type exacrly? As you pointed out -1 is YES/TRUE in ACCESS and 0 is NO/FALSE.

You may be getting a zero due to type conversions. Have you tried to display the ACTIVE value with debug.print in your interactive window.

Can you use a Boolean type instead taht may be a better fit?

You should correct the bracket issue as well. I am surprised this does not generate a syntax error already.

Hope this helps.