Obvious SQL VBA question.

[Mars]

I new to working with SQL in Access macros, and have a problem with the following code.

Sub SQLtest()

Dim strSQL As String

strSQL = "SELECT AUTO_PREMTREND.[Fiscal_Year],AUTO_PREMTREN[CLEP],AUTO_PREMTREND.[Earned_Exp] " & _
"FROM AUTO_PREMTREND " & _
"WHERE AUTO_PREMTREND.[State_Cd]='AZ' " & _
"AND AUTO_PREMTREND.[Major_Peril_Cd]='BI'" & _
"ORDER BY AUTO_PREMTREND.[STATE_Cd];"


DoCmd.RunSQL strSQL
End Sub

When i run this, it returns an error msg that says "A RunSQL action requires an argument consisting of an SQL statement"

This is the associated query that runs fine.

SELECT AUTO_PREMTREND.Fiscal_Year, AUTO_PREMTREND.CLEP, AUTO_PREMTREND.Earned_Exp
FROM AUTO_PREMTREND
WHERE (((AUTO_PREMTREND.State_Cd)="AZ") AND ((AUTO_PREMTREND.Major_Peril_Cd)="bi"));

Is there an obvious mistake I'm making?

 

[pritcham]

Hi

I think (but you may want to confirm) that the runSQL command is used for action queries (i.e. updates/inserts/deletes) and doesn't deal with selects so that may be your problem.

Hope that helps
Martin

 

[Norie]

Mars

When creating SQL queries in VBA you need to be extra careful with spaces.

I think you should have a space after 'BI' here.

"AND AUTO_PREMTREND.[Major_Peril_Cd]='BI' " & _

I don't know if that will help, might just be a typo or something to do with how you copied the code into the message.

By the way what do you actually want to do, I think RunSQL is normally used with action queries, which I think Mark is pointing toward.

From help.

The RunSQL method carries out the RunSQL action in Visual Basic in action queries. For more information on how the action and its arguments work, see the action topic.

 

[Portia]

Hi, Mars.

Trying changing this line: 'DoCmd.RunSQL strSQL'

To this: 'rst = CurrentDB.OpenRecordset strSQL'

You'll need a recordset object to store the results though if you're planning on doing something with the data (hence the 'rst').

Hopefully, that should help.