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Posted by Andrew Gould on 01 April 2014
How to use VBA macros to amend records in SQL Server and Access tables
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Hi, I don't have SQL Server installed on my machine as I use MySQL instead.
Most of the code works as-is (you have to get a MySQL-specific connection string first) except for the cursor type. I found that using "adOpenForwardOnly" doesn't work properly - only a few columns of data end up on the Excel sheet. So I switched the cursor to "adOpenDynamic" and things seem to work the way they should.
I don't have a huge database to work with so I don't notice any performance problems as of yet but will let you know if I run into any.
BTW, these videos are great! Thanks for making them!
Bob
Useful information, Bob, thanks for taking the time to send it!