Question

Ive been trying to get this sql statement to work properly through excel vba.

SELECT * FROM Documents WHERE (((Documents.doc_Comment) Like *" & [SStr] & "*));

This works 100% in access, what i want it to do is allow for a search based on part of the doc_comment field.

example Search for BOB

• ID | Doc_comments
• 1 | Bob is a person
• 2 | Person name is Bob
• 3 | Seven is a number

The search would return only the first and second.

As i said above the access query is easy to get working but as soon as i add in excel it all goes to hell. Ive tried using stored queries in access to no avail, even tried writing a temptable but as soon as i call the query from excel and pass the parameter the query fails and gives no results.

Ive tried searching around and cant find anything that helps.

Thanks alot

Edit note-made example data more readable

Answer 1

If you are using ADO in Excel, it is case sensitive and the wild card is % not *.

To be a little clearer, the wild card for ADO is always %.