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user3780550
user3780550

Reputation: 11

Running an Access Query from Excel

I am attempting to run a query in access from excel, and then have those results pulled into the excel document using ADO in VBA. Unfortunately, I cannot figure out how to run the access query such that data in the active cell of the excel sheet is used as a criteria in the access query.

I am running Excel and Access 2007. I've included what code I have so far below. Thanks in advance for your help. 

Sub testdb()

Dim con As ADODB.Connection
Dim rs As ADODB.Recordset
Set con = New ADODB.Connection
With con
.Provider = "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0"
.Open "H:\WBC\Lukas\STOP.accdb"
End With
con.Execute "HPRSearch"
   'the criteria field is 'Input', and I need to pull it from the active cell on the Excel Sheet
End Sub

Upvotes: 1

Views: 11482

Answers (1)

VBlades
VBlades

Reputation: 2251

The first thing you need to do is set up your parametereized query in Access. So, say, Query1 is (where ID is an integer):

SELECT ID FROM Table1 WHERE ID = [MyID];

The brackets around [MyID], if it doesn't resolve to a field name, will be considered a Parameter. Now, say, we want to bring back the record with ID 1. Set up your code in Excel:

Sub testdb()

    Dim con As ADODB.Connection
    Dim cmd As ADODB.Command
    Dim prm As ADODB.Parameter
    Dim rs As ADODB.Recordset

    Set con = New ADODB.Connection
    Set cmd = New ADODB.Command

    With con
        .Provider = "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0"
        .Open "H:\WBC\Lukas\STOP.accdb"
    End With

    With cmd
        .ActiveConnection = con
        .CommandText = "Query1"
        .CommandType = adCmdStoredProc

        .Parameters.Append cmd.CreateParameter("MyID", adInteger, adParamInput)
        .Parameters("MyID") = 1
    End With

    Set rs = New ADODB.Recordset
    rs.Open cmd

    Do Until rs.EOF
        Debug.Print rs.Fields("ID").Value
        rs.MoveNext
    Loop

    rs.Close
    con.Close

    Set cmd = Nothing
    Set rs = Nothing
    Set prm = Nothing
    Set con = Nothing

End Sub

This reference adInteger found in this line

.Parameters.Append cmd.CreateParameter("MyID", adInteger, adParamInput)

should be replaced with the proper constant that represents the variable type (see here: http://www.w3schools.com/ado/met_comm_createparameter.asp) of the Parameter in your query. In your case, you would set the Parameter value that's represented in this line

.Parameters("MyID") = 1

with the value from your cell.

And that's it. So you create the Connection, create a Command object (which is essentially a reference to your Access query), set the Command object's properties, including the parameter, then have the results brought back in a recordset. Then loop through the recordset and do what you want with the values.

Upvotes: 4

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