Topic awaiting preservation: data type mismatch

I can't for the life of me figure out what's wrong with this line

conn.execute("update inventory set first_name = '" & first & "', last_name = '" & last & "', Item = '" & item1 & "', Serial = '" & serial1 & "', JWtag = '" & tag1 & "', Status = '" & status1 & "', info = '" & info1 & "', equipment = '" & equi & "',  dment = '" & department & "' where ID = '" & whichitem & "'")

I keep getting a data type mismatch in query expression message. I've checked the data base and all the types are correct. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks
Ensa

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Mmm ive had this error before, for an access database too - access aint all that bad =) but then again i have done much sql database .......

Might need a bit more info on your table data too see whats going on, data type mismatch might just mean your trying to put a text value into a numbered field or the likes so you might want to check that.

It is an Access DB, sorry, I know it isn't that great, but it suits my needs and works well for me (except for now) I Know there aren't any relationships set up. I can access all the data with a select command. I know the value types are correct... I've checked that, it seems, a thousand times. I don't suppose there's anything about the line of code

conn.execute("update inventory set first_name = '" & first & "', last_name = '" & last & "', Item = '" & item1 & "', Serial = '" & serial1 & "', JWtag = '" & tag1 & "', Status = '" & status1 & "', info = '" & info1 & "', equipment = '" & equi & "',  dment = '" & department & "' where ID = '" & whichitem & "'")

that just jumps out at you as being incorrectly formatted?


Thanks

Ensa

Hmm not that i can see, i remember having this exact same error. I think my problem was i was using some values that access has set aside and you simple arent allowed to use, things like password etc. But what you have looks fine..... do some debugging or something and put a list of everything that is about to go into your database and make sure they are what you expect, maybe another part of the code is changing something

I noticed that in your sql statement you have all of your values surrounded by the single quotes ' '. If any of your fields in the access table are specified as type numeric then you should not surround the values with quotes . For instance if your department field is actually a numeric field then the sql statement for that should say: department = 1 instead of department = '1'. A couple of your fields look suspicously like you may have defined them as numeric type fields in your access database and that would cause the stated problem.