[AccessD] Stored procedures from Access

William Hindman wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com
Thu Jan 22 12:11:54 CST 2009


...good question :)

William

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From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:59 PM
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Stored procedures from Access

> And how many many many times have I written a step by step,
> click this, do this kind of instruction when requested?
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
>
> William Hindman wrote:
>> "they all seem to start with "you know how to do this and here are some
>> tricks" rather than "since you know nothing,
>> here is what you are doing and why"
>>
>> ...lol ...how many, many, many times, over a long span of years, have I
>> pushed your buttons for doing the very same thing to we poor AccessD
>> illiterates ...you know, you assume we know, but we don't know :)
>>
>> William
>>
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>> From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:59 AM
>> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
>> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>> Subject: [AccessD] Stored procedures from Access
>>
>>> OK, I have built my first pass through query, which runs
>>> just fine.
>>>
>>> Basically I am trying to run stored procedures in SQL which
>>> have parameters.
>>>
>>> I built the pass through query as a simple
>>>
>>> "exec MyProcName, Param1, Param2"
>>>
>>> Where param1 and param2 are hard coded.  I do not see a way
>>> to place parameters in a collection like you can do with
>>> regular queries.  Did I miss something there?
>>>
>>> Now, I think it was Charlotte (I deleted the email after
>>> copying the code) that provided a CallADOStoredProc, which I
>>> am trying to use.  However I am getting an "odbc call
>>> failed" error, which I am pretty certain is because it uses
>>> the standard currentproject.connection.  That connection
>>> does not reference the server or the database, so how can it
>>> know where to send the odbc call?
>>>
>>> Questions:
>>>
>>> 1) Is the parameter collection that is being filled in
>>> CallADOStoredProc replace the hard coded parameters in my
>>> pass through query?  I.e. can I just remove the hard coded
>>> parameters and place them in the call to CallADOStoredProc?
>>>
>>> 2) Is CallADOStoredProc looking for a local pass through
>>> query at all, or is it looking for the name of a stopred
>>> procedure out in SQL Server?
>>>
>>> 3) Do I need to find a "standard" connection string which
>>> will reference the SQL Server?
>>>
>>> I am now using tons of Stored Procedures out in SQL Server
>>> but I have absolutely zero experience causing them to
>>> execute from Access.  I need some very basic instructions on
>>> how to do this.  I have found things on the internet but
>>> they all seem to start with "you know how to do this and
>>> here are some tricks" rather than "since you know nothing,
>>> here is what you are doing and why".
>>>
>>> Can anyone here provide a "since you know nothing" approach?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
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