Microsoft KB Archive/148361

= Visual Basic Example to Open a RecordSet Using DAO =

Article ID: 148361

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q148361



SUMMARY
This article provides a Visual Basic for Applications example of how to create a Data Access Object (DAO) record set that contains the results of an SQL Query string.



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Visual Basic Code Example
 Insert a Visual Basic module into a new Microsoft Excel workbook. Create a reference to the Microsoft DAO object library. In Microsoft Excel 97 the DAO library will be version 3.5. In Microsoft Excel 7.0 the DAO library will be version 3.0.  Type the following code into the module sheet: ' This code assumes you have Microsoft Access 7.0 installed and have ' the Northwind.mdb sample database installed in the default ' location.

Sub CreateRecordSet

Dim oldDbName As String Dim wspDefault As Workspace Dim dbsNorthwind As Database Dim strSQL As String Dim rstFromQuery As Recordset

'Set the path to the database oldDbName = "C:\Msoffice\access\samples\Northwind.mdb"

'Create a default workspace Object Set wspDefault = DBEngine.Workspaces(0)

'Create a Database object Set dbsNorthwind = wspDefault.OpenDatabase(oldDbName)

'The SQL statement strSQL = "SELECT Employees.LastName, Employees.FirstName, " & _ "Employees.Country FROM Employees Employees " & _ "WHERE (Employees.Country='USA')"

'Create a Snapshot Type Recordset from the SQL query Set _ rstFromQuery = dbsNorthwind.OpenRecordset(strSQL,dbOpenSnapshot)

'Show the number of fields returned MsgBox "there are " & rstFromQuery.Fields.Count & _ " fields that were returned"

'Move to the last record in the recordset rstFromQuery.MoveLast

'Show the number of records returned MsgBox "there are " & rstFromQuery.RecordCount & _ " records that were returned"

End Sub 

