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# BUG: CREATE TABLE and CREATE INDEX Cause Error 42000

Article ID: 124363

Article Last Modified on 7/27/2001

APPLIES TO

- Microsoft Open Database Connectivity 2.0

This article was previously published under Q124363
BUG# QJET: 1824 (2.00.2317)

## SYMPTOMS

Using the Microsoft Access ODBC driver, when the CREATE TABLE or CREATE INDEX commands are executed with table, column, or index names that contain words (such as, proc or view) anywhere in their name, an error is generated with SQLSTATE=42000:
Syntax error or access violation.

## STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in ODBC Access Driver version 2.00.2317. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
This problem does not occur on the 3.40.2204 version of the driver. However, you still can not create an object whose name is exactly 'proc' or 'view' (note: view is, after all, an ODBC reserved word).

## MORE INFORMATION

For example, the following statements cause the error:

       create table review(test <datatype>)
       create table viewing(test <datatype>)
       create table 'reviewing'(test <datatype>)
       create table <tablename> ('reviewing' <datatype>)
       create index review on <tablename>(<columnname>)

Calling SQLError returns:
SQLSTATE=42000,
szErrorMsg=[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access 2.0 driver]Syntax error or access violation.
You will also get the above error for other identifiers containing the word "proc" anywhere in their name, such as myproc, processing, process, and so forth.
NOTE: If such a table or index already exists in the Microsoft Access .MDB file, then SELECT, DELETE, INSERT, and UPDATE queries will work fine with these identifiers.

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