Question

It’s been years since I’ve worked in Access code and it is making me certifiably insane.

I just don’t remember anything and all I want to do is open a recordset in code and nothing I’ve found online or any permutation of code I’ve tried works.

The short of it:

Dim rsSystem As Recordset
Dim sSQL As String

sSQL = "SELECT * FROM Table"
Set rsSystem = CurrentDB.OpenRecordset(sSQL)

What in the holy hell am I missing?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Examples here, for all permutations of opening a “Recordset”:
http://www.vbexplorer.com/VBExplorer/vb_feature/june2000/Database_Beginner_ADO_DAO.asp

The easiest way is to use DAO on the current database. My VBA is a little rusty, but…

Dim db as DAO.Database
Dim rs as DAO.Recordset
Set db = CurrentDB
Set rs = DB.OpenRecordset("table or query name")

For ADO:

Dim rs As New ADODB.Recordset
rs.Open "tblPeople", CurrentProject.Connection, adOpenDynamic