Question

Just trying to pass a 5-letter string value (ie, “SSIID”) from my VBA project to a parameter in my sql stored procedure but apparently I’m mixing up the types or something is going wrong. The error is:

Parameter object is improperly defined.

I’ve looked up the comparable data types here http://www.w3schools.com/ado/ado_datatypes.asp and tried to match but to no avail. Any ideas?

VBA

.CreateParameter("@Location", adVarChar, adParamInput, , "SSIID")

SQL Parameter

@Location varchar

Answer 1

CreateParameter Method (ADO)

Remarks about Size parameter

If you specify a variable-length data type in the Type argument, you
must either pass a Size argument or set the Size property of the
Parameter object before appending it to the Parameters collection;
otherwise, an error occurs.

e.g.

.CreateParameter("@Location", adVarChar, adParamInput, 5, "SSIID")