ADO insert a record into access DB using delphi

Question

Am learning how to use insert into statements and, with my access database, am trying to insert a single record. The table I'm inserting a new record into has three fields: StockID (AutoN), Description (Text), Cost (Number). I've looked at previous posts but the posted solutions seem to go beyond my basic level of Insert Into...which is what I'm interested in. Anyway, here is my code...

    adoQuery1.Active := true;
adoQuery1.SQL.Clear;
adoQuery1.SQL.Add('INSERT INTO Stock (StockID,Description,Cost) VALUES (4,Cheese,5)');
adoQuery1.open;
adoQuery1.Close;

It compiles fine, but when press a command button to invoke the above, I get the following message:

'ADOQuery1: "Missing SQL property".'

what am I doing wrong?

Thanks, Abelisto. Your last post looks complex indeed...but I did my own little version since your last solution got me up and running. It works so I'm very chuffed. Am now going to focus on DELETE FROM using combobox (for field selection) and user value. Here was my solution I got working... ;)

x:=strtoint(txtStockID.Text);
y:=txtDescription.Text;
z:=strtoCurr(txtCost.Text);

adoQuery1.SQL.Clear;
adoQuery1.SQL.Add('INSERT INTO tblStock (StockID,Description,Cost)');
adoQuery1.SQL.Add('VALUES (:StockID,:Description,:Cost)');   // ':StockID' denotes a parameter
adoQuery1.Parameters.ParamByName('StockID').Value:= x;
adoQuery1.Parameters.ParamByName('Description').Value:= y;
adoQuery1.Parameters.ParamByName('Cost').Value:= z;
adoQuery1.ExecSQL;
adoQuery1.Close;

Solution

Using parameters is more efficient then constant SQL statements. Additional to my comments here is some useful functions which I using frequently to call SQL statements with parameters (Maybe it will be useful for you too):

function TCore.ExecQuery(const ASQL: String; const AParamNames: array of string;
    const AParamValues: array of Variant): Integer;
var
    q: TADOQuery;
    i: Integer;
begin
    if Length(AParamNames) <> Length(AParamValues) then
        raise Exception.Create('There are different number of parameter names and values.');

    q := GetQuery(ASQL) as TADOQuery;
    try
        for i := Low(AParamNames) to High(AParamNames) do
            SetParamValue(q, AParamNames[i], AParamValues[i]);
        q.ExecSQL;
        Result := q.RowsAffected;
    finally
        q.Free;
    end;
end;

function TCore.GetQuery(const ASQL: String): TDataSet;
begin
    Result := TADOQuery.Create(Self);
    (Result as TADOQuery).CommandTimeout := 0;
    (Result as TADOQuery).Connection := Connection;
    (Result as TADOQuery).SQL.Text := ASQL;
end;

procedure TCore.SetParamValue(AQuery: TDataSet; const AName: string; const AValue: Variant);
var
    i: Integer;
    q: TADOQuery;
begin
    q := AQuery as TADOQuery;
    for i := 0 to q.Parameters.Count - 1 do
        if AnsiSameText(AName, q.Parameters[i].Name) then
        begin
            case VarType(AValue) of
                varString, varUString:
                    q.Parameters[i].DataType := ftString;
                varInteger:
                    q.Parameters[i].DataType := ftInteger;
                varInt64:
                    q.Parameters[i].DataType := ftLargeint;
            end;

            q.Parameters[i].Value := AValue;
        end;
end;

And usage example in your case:

Core.ExecQuery(
  'INSERT INTO Stock (StockID, Description, Cost) VALUES (:PStockID, :PDescription, :PCost)', 
  ['PStockID', 'PDescription', 'PCost'],
  [4, 'Cheese', 5]);