Question

I’ve been writing some pretty long SQL queries in notepad and then pasting them into my VBA code as-is and then formatting the multi-line string correctly each line at a time. For example…

In my text editor, the query looks like this.

SELECT 
      a,
      b,
      c,
      ...,
      n
FROM
      table1,
      table2,
      ...,
      tableN
WHERE
      etc

Then pasting this into the VBA editor and manually adding sqlStr = sqlStr & ” …. “ to every line.

sqlStr = "               SELECT "
sqlStr = sqlStr & "          a,"
sqlStr = sqlStr & "          b,"
sqlStr = sqlStr & "          c,"
sqlStr = sqlStr & "          ...,"
sqlStr = sqlStr & "          n"
sqlStr = sqlStr & "      FROM"
sqlStr = sqlStr & "          table1,"
sqlStr = sqlStr & "          table2,"
sqlStr = sqlStr & "          ...,"
sqlStr = sqlStr & "          tableN"
sqlStr = sqlStr & "      WHERE"
sqlStr = sqlStr & "          etc"

Does anyone know of a tool that will let me automatically wrap the VBA string stuff around my query (instead of adding it manually)? I imagine there’s a web site somewhere for that, but I can’t find it.

I could rig up something in Vi, but I can’t guarantee that I’ll be doing this on a computer that I’ll have rights to install Vi on.

Any help appreciated! Thanks.

Answer 1

You might want to look at SQLinForm. Among other formats, it allows you to format SQL for use in VB/VBA