Export Excel Spread Sheet to Access Table with A Timestamp? - sql

Question

I currently use a set up like the one below.
Set AccessConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
sExcel = "[Excel 8.0;HDR=YES;IMEX=2;DATABASE=" & ThisWorkbook.FullName & "].[Sheet1$]"
AccessConn.Open "DSN=Foo", "", ""
sSQL = "Insert Into BarTable Select * FROM " + sExcel
AccessConn.Execute sSQL
Now if I wanted to add a now() column in the export is this possible? something like
Set AccessConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
sExcel = "[Excel 8.0;HDR=YES;IMEX=2;DATABASE=" & ThisWorkbook.FullName & "].[Sheet1$]"
AccessConn.Open "DSN=Foo", "", ""
sSQL = "Insert Into BarTable Select *,NOW() FROM " + sExcel
AccessConn.Execute sSQL
Where the last column in BarTable is a Date/Time column and I want to insert the current time into it?

Answer 1

to enter the date in SQL you may need to convert it into text - Access itself can handle 'Now()' but not sure if it can when being passed a SQL string. Something like the below should do it.
sSQL = "Insert Into BarTable Select *,#" & format(NOW(),"MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss") & "# As DateTimeStamp FROM " + sExcel
In Access I have two functions that I use for getting the date or date and time stamp when building SQL strings, I haven't tested but they should translate into Excel VBA okay:
Function MakeSQLDateTime(pSourceDate As Variant) As String
Dim SQLDay As String, SQLMonth As String, SQLYear As String, SQLTime As String
SQLDay = Day(pSourceDate)
SQLMonth = Month(pSourceDate)
SQLYear = Right(Year(pSourceDate), 4)
SQLTime = Hour(pSourceDate) & ":" & Minute(pSourceDate) & ":" & Second(pSourceDate)
MakeSQLDateTime = "#" & SQLMonth & "/" & SQLDay & "/" & SQLYear & " " & SQLTime & "#"
End Function
Function MakeSQLDate(pSourceDate As Variant) As String
Dim SQLDay As String
Dim SQLMonth As String
Dim SQLYear As String
SQLDay = Day(pSourceDate)
SQLMonth = Month(pSourceDate)
SQLYear = Right(Year(pSourceDate), 4)
MakeSQLDate = "#" & SQLMonth & "/" & SQLDay & "/" & SQLYear & "#"
End Function
To use these to complete what you are trying:
sSQL = "Insert Into BarTable Select *," & makeSQLDateTime(Now()) & " As DateTimeStamp FROM " + sExcel