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Thread: Create connection using ADO instead of GetNewConnection?

Mark Hanford
Posts: 131

Create connection using ADO instead of GetNewConnection? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 01 Jul 08 11:10 AM

I'm having some trouble getting a connection working when I can't use Application.GetNewConnection (I'm going to be running as an agent task)

Sub UpdateScores()
Dim Conn
Dim ConnString

ConnString = "Provider=SLXOLEDB.1;Data Source=servername;Initial Catalog=dbname;...etc..."

Conn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Conn.Open ConnString

'...rest of sub...
End Sub

The problem is that my "Conn" is always set to an empty string on the CreateObject line above.

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Create connection using ADO instead of GetNewConnection? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 01 Jul 08 11:24 AM

So you mean that conn is a null or empty object, is that right? I just want to make sure you're not testing it as a string to see if things are OK (because it is not a string).

One thing I see in your code that is missing is you need to "set" the object reference when you use CreateObject.

Set Conn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Conn.Open ConnString

Make that change and give it a try. If it still doesn't work, are you getting any kind of error or anything?

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Mark Hanford
Posts: 131

Re: Create connection using ADO instead of GetNewConnection? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 02 Jul 08 5:10 AM

Heh, seems that rewriting the horrible old code (for the second time) was just too much for me at the end of the day.

In this case I had missed the "Set" out, so the Conn was being cast as a String("") - which confused me. It's been a while since I've dabbled with ADO :D

Thanks for the tip - luckily my omission survived the copying-and-simplify process for the example!

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