Access syntax error when using Join

Question

I have those two tables (Members and Now) I just need to make sure that no one in Members is actually in Now. Both tables have different structures but can be joined on firsname, lastname and postalcode.

So I tried this (in access)

SELECT Members.Prenom, Members.Nom, Members.Adresse, Members.[Adresse 2], Members.ville, Members.Province, Members.CodePostal
FROM Members
Left JOIN now ON (members.prenom = now.firstname AND members.nom = now.lastname
AND members.codepostal = now.postcode) WHERE now.id IS NULL

And it gives me a wonderful error message

invalid use of '.' ' ' or '()'. in query expression

May someone enlighten me on what I did wrong?

Answer 1

Pretty sure you cannot use 'now' as a table name, there are certain reserved words that MS Access need (in this case for function Now(), I guess the error message is telling you have missed the parentesis' ()). You could try encasing it in square brackets but I would strongly recommend changing your table name. A useful format I use is to prefix objects such as tblTableName, qryQueryName, rptReportName, frmFormName etc but whatever works for you.

SELECT Members.Prenom, Members.Nom, Members.Adresse, Members.[Adresse 2], 
    Members.ville, Members.Province, Members.CodePostal
FROM Members
Left JOIN [now] a ON (members.prenom = a.firstname AND members.nom = a.lastname
AND members.codepostal = a.postcode) WHERE a.id IS NULL