[Solved]Error while using 'bindValue' for my QSqlQuery

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I have a simple query that goes like this:

    QSqlQuery query(QSqlDatabase::database(name));
    query.prepare("SELECT * FROM :table WHERE login=:login");
    query.bindValue(":table", GVars::strDbTabel);
    query.bindValue(":login", GVars::strUserLogin);
    if (!query.exec())
    {
        qWarning() << "Database error: " << query.lastError().text();
    }

Running this said that there is an error on the query at the point where my strDbTabel value is.

If instead I do not use bind value and I directly enter the name of my table then it seems to be working fine:

    QSqlQuery query(QSqlDatabase::database(name));
    query.prepare("SELECT * FROM userTable WHERE login=:login");
    query.bindValue(":login", GVars::strUserLogin);
    if (!query.exec())
    {
        qWarning() << "Database error: " << query.lastError().text();
    }

I event tried using QSqlQueryModel:

QSqlQueryModel model;    
model.setQuery(QString("SELECT * FROM %1 WHERE login=%2").arg(GVars::strDbTabel).arg(GVars::strUserLogin));

with even worse results
QSqlQuery::exec: database not open

even though my database is open.

Why can't I use bindValue to chose my table name?

[hskoglund]

Hi, while you can do a lot of stuff with bindvalue you cannot use it for selecting a table name :-(

It's a limitation in the SQL spec. for more on this, see for example: Stackoverflow question

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