Remove the quotes from around "addressbook" ... no need to quote your table you're selecting from.
H. > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Bridges [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 1:37 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: newbie school of hard knocks > > Your passing in quotes or single quotes as data and need to escape them > ... > using cfqueryparam around your data is a good way of doing so > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Miessen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 2:31 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: newbie school of hard knocks > > I am getting the following error but I don't know what is wrong with my > statement can you point out the error of my ways? > > The error I get is; > > Syntax error or access violation: You have an error in your SQL syntax > near ''addressbook' WHERE FirstName = 'Mike' AND LastName = 'Miessen'' > at line 2 > > The Error Occurred in > D:\wwwroot\BlueGrassPro\datasources\emailformaction.cfm: line 8 > > 6 : WHERE FirstName = '#Form.firstname#' > 7 : AND LastName = '#Form.lastname#' > 8 : </cfquery> > > > > My code is this; > > <HTML> > <HEAD> > <cfquery name="DupCheck" datasource="#myDSN#" > username="#DSNusername#" password="#DSNpassword#"> > SELECT COUNT(*) > FROM 'addressbook' > WHERE FirstName = '#Form.firstname#' > AND LastName = '#Form.lastname#' > </cfquery> > > <CFOUTPUT> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4

