How to insert "Entire" DAO recordset into a table with VBA

Question

I have a DAO recordset that gets created fine and I can transfer the records from the set to a table, this is done row by row and works well but I am transfering a large amount of data at once so this can take a very long time row by row.

Is there a way to transfer the ENTIRE recordset in one go, rather than row by row

See below for current code in use -

Dim SendE1 As DAO.Recordset

Set SendE1 = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("SELECT TBL_ImportTable.* FROM TBL_ImportTable", dbOpenDynaset)

SendE1.MoveLast

Do Until SendE1.EOF

sqlinsert = "INSERT INTO TBL_E1Jobs (StartDate, StartTime, EndDate, EndTime, Location, UserID, WorkStationID, DocumentNumber, E1Shift, OperSeq, Facility, AdjustedforShifts, WeekNum)" & _
" VALUES ('" & SendE1("StartDate") & "', '" & SendE1("StartTime") & "', '" & SendE1("EndDate") & "', '" & SendE1("EndTime") & "', '" & SendE1("Location") & "', '" & SendE1("UserID") & "', '" & SendE1("WorkstationID") & "', '" & SendE1("DocumentNumber") & "', '" & SendE1("E1Shift") & "', '" & SendE1("OperSeq") & "', '" & SendE1("Facility") & "', '" & SendE1("AdjustedforShifts") & "', '" & SendE1("WeekNum") & "') "

DoCmd.RunSQL (sqlinsert)

SendE1.MoveNext

Loop


SendE1.Close
Set SendE1 = Nothing

Answer 1

@cularis is correct. The right way to do this is in a SQL query. Having read your comments to his answer, there are a few steps you can take to avoid wiping out data that has not been copied:

Dim db As DAO.Database, RecCount As Long

'Get the total number of records in your import table to compare later
RecCount = DCount("*", "TBL_ImportTable")

'This line is IMPORTANT! each time you call CurrentDb a new db object is returned
'  that would cause problems for us later 
Set db = CurrentDb

'Add the records, being sure to use our db object, not CurrentDb
db.Execute "INSERT INTO TBL_E1Jobs (StartDate, StartTime, ..., WeekNum) " & _
           "SELECT StartDate, StartTime, ..., WeekNum " & _
           "FROM TBL_ImportTable", dbFailOnError

'db.RecordsAffected now contains the number of records that were inserted above
'  since CurrentDb returns a new db object, CurrentDb.RecordsAffected always = 0
If RecCount = db.RecordsAffected Then
    db.Execute "DELETE * FROM TBL_ImportTable", dbFailOnError
End If

Please note that if you run those queries on linked ODBC tables, you will need to include the dbSeeChanges option (ie, dbFailOnError + dbSeeChanges).

Answer 2

Not a DAO, but a SQL solution, that does what you need:

INSERT INTO TBL_E1Jobs  (StartDate, StartTime, EndDate ...) 
SELECT StartDate, StartTime, EndDate ... FROM TBL_ImportTable

INSERT INTO ... SELECT MSDN