ADO.NET working with SQL and database - ado.net

Question

I'm getting an exception error saying missing operators can anyone help
string sql = "Select SalesPerson.Name, Item.Description, Orders.Quantity, Orders.OrderDate"
+ "From([Orders]"
+ "Inner Join[SalesPerson] On Orders.SalesPersonID=SalesPerson.SalesPersonID)"
+ "Inner Join[Item] On Orders.ItemNumber=Item.ItemNumber"
+ "Where Orders.CustomerID=#customer Order by Orders.OrderDate DESC";

Answer 1

You need to add some spaces at the end of each of your lines of SQL!
string sql = "SELECT SalesPerson.Name, Item.Description, Orders.Quantity, Orders.OrderDate "
+ "FROM [Orders] "
+ "INNER JOIN [SalesPerson] ON Orders.SalesPersonID = SalesPerson.SalesPersonID "
+ "INNER JOIN [Item] ON Orders.ItemNumber = Item.ItemNumber "
+ "WHERE Orders.CustomerID = #customer "
+ "ORDER BY Orders.OrderDate DESC";
Otherwise, your SQL ends up being
Select ..... Orders.OrderDateFROM([Orders]Inner Join[SalesPerson] .....
and so on - and that's just not valid SQL.
I also removed some unnecessary parenthesis around the JOIN operators - those are only needed for MS Access, but since you're saying you're using ADO.NET, I assume this is not for MS Access and therefore, those parenthesis are not needed