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Search Community Links Social Groups Pictures & Albums Members List Calendar Search Forums Show Threads Show Posts Tag Search Advanced Search Find All Thanked Posts Go to Page... Thread Tools Rating: Display Modes 11-10-2004, 09:37 AM #1 wazza Registered User Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 104 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Export: Error 3190 - "Too Many Fields Defined" Hi I have used some code to export a query to a spreadsheet... For some reason i get the error msg "too many fields defined". I understand there is max number of columns for a spreadsheet - however, the data being exported does fit easily into a spreadsheet. (when pasted) ??? rgrds https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/871fc212-b8b1-4459-bc19-6849f1374d6c/transferspreadsheet-too-many-fields-defined-error-3190?forum=accessdev wazza View Public Profile Find More Posts by wazza 11-10-2004, 09:54 AM #2 sfreeman@co.mer Sam_F Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 272 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Are you trying to query more than 255 fields? If so, STOP IT! Are you trying to 'update' query more than 127 fields? If so, STOP IT! If not, Access may 'think' you are. Try a Compact and Repair. Also, are your fields http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=76356 'too full'? There is a character limit per record. If not, I'd try saving the table, make sure you get all the data, and then try using the copy of the table in the query. HTH __________________ 90% of the problem is asking the right question. sfreeman@co.mer View Public Profile Find More Posts by sfreeman@co.mer 11-10-2004, 10:26 AM #3 wazza Registered User Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 104 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts the table was only about 80 columns wide.. i tried to repair the database... no luck there so i deleted the spreadsheet and created a new one... this appears to have solved the problem.. Thanks wazza View Public Profile Find More Posts by wazza « Previous Thread | Next Thread » Thread Tools Show Printable Version Email this Page Display Modes Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode Rate This Thread Excellent Good Average Bad Terrible Forum Jump User Control Panel Private Messages Subscriptions Who's Online Search Forums Forums Home Access World Access World News Site Suggestions Introduce Yourself The Watercooler Microsoft Access Discussion General Tables Queries Forms Reports Macros Modules & VBA Theory and practice of
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 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13846776/union-all-query-too-many-fields-defined 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 6.2 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up UNION ALL query: “Too too many Many Fields Defined” up vote 2 down vote favorite I'm trying to get a UNION of 3 tables, each of which have 97 fields. I've tried the following: select * from table1 union all select * from table2 union all select * from table3 This gives me an error message: Too many fields defined. I also tried explicitly selecting all the field names from the too many fields first table (ellipses added for brevity): select [field1],[field2]...[field97] from table1 union all select * from table2 union all select * from table3 It works fine when I only UNION two tables like this: select * from table1 union all select * from table2 I shouldn't end up with more than 97 fields as a result of this query; the two-table UNION only has 97. So why am I getting Too many fields with 3 tables? EDIT: As RichardTheKiwi notes below, Access is summing up the field count of each SELECT query in the UNION chain, which means that my 3 tables exceed the 255 field maximum. So instead, I need to write the query like this: select * from table1 union all select * from (select * from table2 union all select * from table3) which works fine. sql ms-access share|improve this question edited Dec 12 '12 at 19:28 asked Dec 12 '12 at 19:02 sigil 3,5241362112 2 the tables that are UNIONed need to have the same number of fields, and they should be in the same order and of the same type.. –Gaby aka G. Petrioli Dec 12 '12 a