Access Runtime Error 3190 Too Many Fields Defined
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quick word of caution regarding the Error code 3190 that may occur when using the DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet Method to export data. I previously had been using a procedure to export my data without any problems, then I went to too many fields defined access use it again and kept getting this error. I mean I only had 12 columns access query too many fields defined in my query, so what the …?! After doing some testing I ended up determining that it had nothing to do with the access too many fields defined union query field count, but rather with the fact that the file already existed. Basically, the DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet Method was unable to overwrite the existing file and raised this most useless error! So beware that Error 3190 - Too many fields too many fields defined access 2010 query can also mean cannot overwrite the existing export file. The fix is extremely easy, simply check for the file and if it does exist then delete it using the Kill statement prior to running the DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet Method. Hopefully this will avoid someone some headaches trying to resolve a field error where there never was one to begin with!!! View ratings Rate this article Rate this article Article ratingsCurrent average ratings. Ease of understanding 4.9 10 ratings Helpful/Useful
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of Use too many fields defined excel oledb Tables: "Too many fields defined" error message Author(s) too many fields defined transferspreadsheet Dev Ashish (Q) When I try to save a table, I keep getting the error http://www.devhut.net/2010/06/22/ms-access-vba-docmd-transferspreadsheet-error-3190-too-many-fields/ message "Too many fields defined". What's causing this to come up? (A) Access keeps an internal count of total number of fields in a table and has a limit http://access.mvps.org/access/tables/tbl0002.htm of 255 fields per table. Each time you modify a field or add a field, this count increases by 1. When you delete a field, Access does NOT reset this counter. So it's possible for you to have less than 255 fields and still get this error message. If your field count is less than 255, just compact the database again which should reset the internal field count counter. © 1998-2010, Dev Ashish & Arvin Meyer, All rights reserved. Optimized for Microsoft Internet Explorer
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Access2000 group, My Table_Volunteers has 70 fields. My query_A displays all 70 fields (from table_Volunteers) plus an additional 17 calculated fields for a total of 77 fields. And it works fine My query_B displays all 70 Fields (from Table_Volunteers) plus an additional 17 calculated fields for a total of 77 fields. And it works fine. My query_C displays all 70 Fields (from Table_Volunteers) plus an additional 17 calculated fields for a total of 77 fields. And it also works fine. However, when i try to do the following...... SELECT * FROM query_A UNION ALL SELECT * FROM query_B UNION ALL SELECT * FROM query_C i get this error...... "RUNTIME ERROR '3190' - too many fields defined" Any ideas? Cheeers, WebDUDE out. WebDude, Nov 25, 2006 #1 Advertisements Allen Browne Guest 70 fields + 17 calculated fields = 87 fields. 87 fields * 3 tables = 261 fields. Access will probably max out at 255. As a workaround, you could create another table with 87 fields. Empty it with a delete query. Populate it with 3 Append queries. The design you describe sounds more like a spreadsheet than a relational database. The long-term solution will probably be to read up on "normalization", and create some related tables that have many *records* instead of having many (repeating?) fields on the one table. That will also avoid the whole problem of the UNION query, since the records will already be multiple records instead of trying to combine the 3 sets of repeating fields into one long list. Here's a list of articles that may help you get started with relational design: http://home.bendbroadband.com/conradsystems/accessjunkie/resources.html#DatabaseDesign101 -- Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org. "WebDude" <> wrote i