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Tables: "Too many fields defined" error message Author(s) Dev Ashish (Q) When I try to save a table, I keep getting the error 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 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
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up VBA calling http://access.mvps.org/access/tables/tbl0002.htm an access query to fill Excel File up vote 0 down vote favorite Run-time error '3190' Too many fields defined I recieve this error when I click on a button that calls queries in a DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet: '------------------------------------------------------------ ' Creates the excel file in the path passed to it ' Returns the path of the file including the file name and extension '------------------------------------------------------------ Function CreateExcelFile(Path http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24291753/vba-calling-an-access-query-to-fill-excel-file As String) As String Dim outputFileName As String outputFileName = Path & "SummaryTemplate.xlsx" Dim Queries(1 To 4) As String Queries(1) = "qryProcessAuditScores" 'Audit scores Queries(2) = "qryProcessAuditStations" 'Audit Stations Queries(3) = "qryProcessNCs" 'Number of NC's Queries(4) = "qryProcessAuditCount" 'number of audits from the year Dim qry For Each qry In Queries DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet _ acExport, _ acSpreadsheetTypeExcel12, _ qry, _ outputFileName, _ True Next CreateExcelFile = outputFileName 'return the full path End Function When I run the queries by hand in Access I recieve no such error. I have tried Compact and Repair Database with no luck. Any other Ideas? Thanks vba access-vba ms-access-2010 share|improve this question asked Jun 18 '14 at 17:33 Evan 377318 Try using for qry = 1 to 4 and Queries(qry) ? –iDevlop Jun 18 '14 at 17:47 Alternatively, put a breakpoint on the docmd.transferspreadsheet line, and inspect the value of qry –iDevlop Jun 18 '14 at 17:48 I tried that just to make sure but that is a looping issue. This is more clearly a calling or query issue, the code is there as a reference to my method, not becau
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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 in message news:... > Dear 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 fo