Executing multiline query does not work with table alias where single-line query does

Question

This is my first time using ucanaccess since I just found out that my previous version of Eclipse would not work with Java 1.8 so I can get to my Access DB. I am familiar with Java programming and RDBMS (currently use Oracle) so I don't understand why I'm getting an error with my code.

This is the code I use to connect to the DB (variable dbFile is a File object used to store the Access DB path):

		try
		{
			String urlDB = "jdbc:ucanaccess://"+ dbFile.getAbsolutePath();
			
			Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(urlDB, "", "");
			System.out.println("Connection Successful\n");
			
			Statement test = conn.createStatement();
/*			ResultSet rs = test.executeQuery("SELECT e.* "
                                                       + "FROM Employees e"
                                                       + "WHERE e.EmployeeNo LIKE 'H%'" 
                                                       + "ORDER BY e.LastName");

			System.out.println(); //spacing

			//retrieve column data
			while(rs.next())
			{
				//can get data by column name instead of ID
				String id = rs.getString("ID");
				String fName = rs.getString("FirstName");
				String lName = rs.getString("LastName");
				String dName = rs.getString("DisplayName");
						
				System.out.println(id + "\t" + fName + "\t" + lName + "\t");
				
			}
*/			
			ResultSet rs = test.executeQuery("SELECT e.* FROM Employees e WHERE e.EmployeeNo LIKE '1%' ORDER BY e.LastName");
			
			//get table information (i.e. column names)
			ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData();
			int dbColumnCount = rsmd.getColumnCount();
			
/*			//db columns starts at 1 not 0
			for (int count = 1; count <= dbColumnCount; count++)
			{
				System.out.print(rsmd.getColumnName(count) + "\t");
			}
*/			
			System.out.format("%5s%10s%15s%20s%n", rsmd.getColumnName(1), rsmd.getColumnName(2),
					rsmd.getColumnName(3), rsmd.getColumnName(4));
			//System.out.println();
			
			while(rs.next())
			{
				//can get data by column name instead of ID
				String id = rs.getString("ID");
				String fName = rs.getString("FirstName");
				String lName = rs.getString("LastName");
				String dName = rs.getString("DisplayName");
						
				//System.out.println(id + "\t" + fName + "\t" + lName + "\t");
				System.out.format("%5s%10s%15s%20s%n", id, fName, lName, dName);
			}
			
		}
		catch (Exception e)
		{
			e.printStackTrace();
			System.err.println("Could not connect to the Database");
			System.err.println(e.getMessage());
		}		
	}

The first call to ResultSet(multiline query) throws the following exception:

net.ucanaccess.jdbc.UcanaccessSQLException: UCAExc:::4.0.0 user lacks privilege or object not found: E
	at net.ucanaccess.jdbc.UcanaccessStatement.executeQuery(UcanaccessStatement.java:210)
	at DBConnect.<init>(InOutBoard.java:78)
	at InOutBoard.main(InOutBoard.java:47)
Caused by: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: user lacks privilege or object not found: E
	at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCUtil.sqlException(Unknown Source)
	at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCUtil.sqlException(Unknown Source)
	at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCStatement.fetchResult(Unknown Source)
	at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCStatement.executeQuery(Unknown Source)
	at net.ucanaccess.jdbc.UcanaccessStatement.executeQuery(UcanaccessStatement.java:208)
	... 2 more
Caused by: org.hsqldb.HsqlException: user lacks privilege or object not found: E
	at org.hsqldb.error.Error.error(Unknown Source)
	at org.hsqldb.error.Error.error(Unknown Source)
	at org.hsqldb.QuerySpecification.resolveColumnReferencesForAsterisk(Unknown Source)
	at org.hsqldb.QuerySpecification.resolveReferences(Unknown Source)
	at org.hsqldb.QueryExpression.resolve(Unknown Source)
	at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.compileCursorSpecification(Unknown Source)
	at org.hsqldb.ParserCommand.compilePart(Unknown Source)
	at org.hsqldb.ParserCommand.compileStatements(Unknown Source)
	at org.hsqldb.Session.executeDirectStatement(Unknown Source)
	at org.hsqldb.Session.execute(Unknown Source)
	... 5 more
Could not connect to the Database
UCAExc:::4.0.0 user lacks privilege or object not found: E

whereas if I run the second call to ResultSet (single-line query), the data is properly returned from the table. Now as far as I can tell (other than spanning multiple lines in the first one) both queries are the same. So why is it that the first one throws the error? I can't imagine that the choice of formatting would make a difference, but as I said, I'm knew to using ucanaccess.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The link I regularly give is valid here too:
How to debug dynamic SQL in VBA

You are concatenating a SQL string without checking it is correct.

ResultSet rs = test.executeQuery("SELECT e.* "
                               + "FROM Employees e"
                               + "WHERE e.EmployeeNo LIKE 'H%'" 
                               + "ORDER BY e.LastName");

will result in

SELECT e.* FROM Employees eWHERE e.EmployeeNo LIKE 'H%'ORDER BY e.LastName

It's missing spaces between the line breaks.