Microsoft KB Archive/182290

= HOWTO: Return Multiple Recordsets with Column Names and Values =

Article ID: 182290

Article Last Modified on 3/14/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Data Access Components 1.5
 * Microsoft Data Access Components 2.0
 * Microsoft Data Access Components 2.1
 * Microsoft Data Access Components 2.1 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Data Access Components 2.1 Service Pack 2
 * Microsoft Data Access Components 2.5
 * Microsoft Data Access Components 2.6
 * Microsoft Data Access Components 2.7

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This article was previously published under Q182290



SUMMARY
The Microsoft Visual Basic sample in this article demonstrates how to return multiple ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Recordsets from a Microsoft SQL Server stored procedure. The code also demonstrates how to extract the column names and values from each ADO Recordset as each row is returned.



MORE INFORMATION
This application requires a Microsoft SQL Server stored procedure that returns multiple Recordsets. An example of the script required to accomplish this task is given below. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with creating stored procedures in Microsoft SQL Server. This stored procedure uses the Pubs database supplied with Microsoft SQL Server. You need to run the following script against the pubs database before running the sample code: CREATE PROCEDURE Multi_Results AS

SELECT * FROM Authors SELECT * FROM Stores SELECT * FROM Sales GO NOTE: You need to acquire and install the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.x stack for the sample in this article. Please refer to the article listed in the REFERENCES section for more information on MDAC 2.x.

After the stored procedure is created, follow these steps:  Open a Standard EXE project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default. Place a command button on the new Form. From the Project menu, select References and then select Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects. (This was installed with the MDAC stack.)  Place the following code in the General Declarations section of Form1. You may need to alter the database connection information. Here is the code: Private Sub Command1_Click Dim Conn1 As ADODB.Connection Set Conn1 = New ADODB.Connection Dim Cmd1 As ADODB.Command Set Cmd1 = New ADODB.Command Dim Rs1 As ADODB.Recordset

Dim RSField As ADODB.Field Dim ColCnt, Cnt1, i As Long

Debug.Print "Starting-"

'Create all the objects required by this application. ' 'The connection string will have to be modified to reflect your data 'source name (DSN). Conn1.Open "MyDSN", "sa", "" Conn1.DefaultDatabase = "pubs" Conn1.CursorLocation = adUseServer 'Conn1.CursorLocation = adUseClient 'This will give error 3251 - '"The operation requested by the application                 'is not supported by the provider" when calling 'the NextRecordset method. 'Actually, the above is not true for ADO 2.1 sp2, 'and possibly other versions as well. This will 'have to be changed to say '"Older versions of the OLE DB Provider for                  'ODBC Drivers will give error 3251."

Cmd1.ActiveConnection = Conn1 Cmd1.CommandType = adCmdStoredProc Cmd1.CommandText = "Multi_Results"

'Opens a Forward-Only, Read-Only Recordset cursor. Set Rs1 = Cmd1.Execute 'Continue looping while there are recordsets to process. Do Until Rs1 Is Nothing

ColCnt = Rs1.Fields.Count Debug.Print "The Recordset State is " & Rs1.State Debug.Print "The Column Count is: " & ColCnt

Do While Not Rs1.EOF   'Cycle through the Recordset.

Debug.Print "Next Record:" Cnt1 = 0

'Cycle through the Field collection. For Each RSField In Rs1.Fields Debug.Print "  " & RSField.Name & " = " & Rs1(Cnt1) Cnt1 = Cnt1 + 1 If Cnt1 = ColCnt Then Exit For End If

Next RSField

Rs1.MoveNext Loop

'Put a breakpoint here to see the last results in the Debug ' window.

Set Rs1 = Rs1.NextRecordset

If Not Rs1 Is Nothing Then Debug.Print Debug.Print "***** NEXT RECORDSET *****" Else Debug.Print Debug.Print "***** THE END *****" End If

Loop

Unload Me  'Quit the application.

End Sub 

Run the application by pressing F5 and click the command button. The results display in the Debug window.

Keywords: kbhowto kbstoredproc kbdatabase KB182290

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