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PRB: VBScript Compilation Error Message '800a03e9' Out of Memory

Article ID: 174634

Article Last Modified on 11/17/2003



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Visual Basic, Scripting Edition 2.0
  • Microsoft Visual InterDev 1.0 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Active Server Pages 4.0



This article was previously published under Q174634

SYMPTOMS

When you preview code written in Visual Basic Script in a browser, the following error message appears:

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a03e9' Out of Memory

CAUSE

VBScript has a maximum static string limit of 1,022 characters, and this error appears any time a line of code exceeds 1,022 characters.

RESOLUTION

Most of the time, the line of code in error is the SQL statement since SELECT statements can be very large. You can use one of the following to work around this problem:

  • If the SELECT goes against a single table, remove the "table." prefix in front of each column.
  • Create a variable to hold the SELECT statement, and concatenate the SQL over several lines as follows:

    MySQL = "SELECT table.col1, table.col2 "
    MySQL = MySQL & "FROM table "
    MySQL = MySQL & "Where x = 3"
                            
  • If the number of columns are relatively small, but the SELECT statement selects from multiple tables, create a view. Select against the view, omitting the "table." prefix in front of the columns.
  • For non-SQL lines of code that are too large, you can use the second workaround listed previously.


STATUS

This behavior is by design.



Additional query words: error 800a03e9

Keywords: kbscript kbprb KB174634