Microsoft Access 1000 backward compatibility for SQL expressions

My experience on converting queries to A2000 is that sometimes they have to be kind of 'refreshed'. Try to copy the SQL into a new query. It might work. I had several queries that needed to do so.
Also make sure the tables Features ans SiteSubsystems exists and are reachable.

maybe toss some parentheses around the left join? such as:

SELECT Features.*, Subsystems.SubsystemName, SiteSubsystems.[Instance Number]
FROM (Features LEFT JOIN Subsystems ON Features.PrimarySubsystemID=Subsystems.SubsystemID) LEFT JOIN
SiteSubsystems ON ( Features.PrimarySubsystemID=SiteSubsystems.SubsystemID
AND SiteSubsystems.[Sequential Index]=1 )
ORDER BY FeatureName;

it seems that access 2000 syntax isn't quite the same as 97. i ran into this issue when dealing with ANSI sql statements and the effective "order" of parentheses. it was a real pain.

what you could do, along the lines that ornicar has mentioned, is simply rebuild the query. it doesn't look horribly difficult to redo, but it's a real pain i'm sure to have to redo all your queries.

good luck

dovholuk

Well, I didn't mean rebuild them from scratch: Just copy the SQL from the old query and paste it in a new query does the trick. Strange, but this is what I experienced.

ornicar,
nothing strange about that

afterall, it is a microsoft product... :-)

cheers
Ricky

a Microstrange product... :-)
Man, this means you have to test all your queries :-(

It was a syntax problem in the query:
SiteSubsystems ON ( Features.PrimarySubsystemID=SiteSubsystems.SubsystemID
AND SiteSubsystems.[Sequential Index]=1 )
ORDER BY FeatureName;

should have been:
Features.PrimarySubsystemID=SiteSubsystems.SubsystemID
WHERE SiteSubsystems.[Sequential Index]=1 )
ORDER BY FeatureName;

for some reason on 97 it worked fine !!!?!!

It was a syntax problem in the query:
SiteSubsystems ON ( Features.PrimarySubsystemID=SiteSubsystems.SubsystemID
AND SiteSubsystems.[Sequential Index]=1 )
ORDER BY FeatureName;

should have been:
Features.PrimarySubsystemID=SiteSubsystems.SubsystemID
WHERE SiteSubsystems.[Sequential Index]=1 )
ORDER BY FeatureName;

for some reason on 97 it worked fine !!!?!!

Be careful and compare the two queries in design view: In the original one, you have LEFT JOIN, and you don't have with the new syntax.
This means that in certain occasions, the two queries don't give the same result!
To set an outer join, double-click the relation line between the two tables and choose option 2 or 3. See the small arrow?

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