concatenation and max length of string in VBA, access

Question

I\'ve had severas problems with strings in access-vba.

The thing is, access (sometimes) limit the string\'s length to about 255 characters.

However, dependin

Answer 1

When concatenating strings for SQL, add a vbCrLf character when lines might grow long. Access seems to have trouble ingesting VBA strings (to execute as SQL) greater than about 1000 characters. e.g.

strSQL = strSQL & "SELECT some fields " & vbcrlf & "FROM some table "