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Posted on by MisterH

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Hi Everyone,

I have an MS Access database that I am working with and there are a number of stored parametised queries for inserting and updating records. Is there a way to 'call' these stored queries to add and update records, or am I going to have to grab the SQL from each one and re-create it in PAD? I am not the maintainer of this database so I would very much like to be able to use the saved queries if possible.

Thanks for taking a look at this for me. Any help greatly appreciated.

@MisterH

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kinuasa 801 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi,
I suggest that to run a script like the following using the "Run VBScript" action.

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kinuasa

Dim con 'ADODB.Connection Dim cmd 'ADODB.Command Const DBFilePath = "C:\Test\Sample.accdb" Const QueryName = "TargetQuery" Set con = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") con.Open "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.16.0;Data Source=" & DBFilePath & ";Persist Security Info=False;" With CreateObject("ADOX.Catalog") Set .ActiveConnection = con Set cmd = .Procedures(QueryName).Command cmd.Execute End With con.Close
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MisterH 51 on at

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Hi Kinuasa,

Thanks for having a crack at this. What you are suggesting is to step outside the flow altogether which defeats the purpose of having the control of the flow.

I have discovered the answer though:
eg/ EXECUTE [yourQueryNameHere] "Some Text Value"

The values that you place after the [yourQueryNameHere] need to be in the order they are specified in the query (the one you are calling in MS Access). The data types should also match.

eg/ EXECUTE [yourQueryNameHere] "Some Text Value", 123.45, "Another Text Value"

I hope this helps anyone else looking to execute queries, particularly parametised ones inside of MS Access.

Cheers

MisterH

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