I am working on an Excel application that queries a SQL database. The queries can take a long time to run (20-40 min). If I've miss-coded something it can take a long time to error or reach a break point. I can save the results to a sheet fine, it's when I am working with the record sets that things can blow up.
Is there a way to load the data into a ADODB.Recordset when I'm debugging to skip querying the database (after the first time)?
Would I use something like this?
Query Excel worksheet in MS-Access VBA (using ADODB recordset)
I had to install the MDAC to get the msado15.dll and once I had it I added a reference to it from (on Win7 64bit):
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\System\ado\msado15.dll
Then I created a function to return an ADODB.Recordset object by passing in a sheet name that exists in the currently active workbook. Here's the code for any others if they need it, including a Test() Sub to see if it works:
Public Function RecordSetFromSheet(sheetName As String)
Dim rst As New ADODB.Recordset
Dim cnx As New ADODB.Connection
Dim cmd As New ADODB.Command
'setup the connection
'[HDR=Yes] means the Field names are in the first row
With cnx
.Provider = "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"
.ConnectionString = "Data Source='" & ThisWorkbook.FullName & "'; " & "Extended Properties='Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes;IMEX=1'"
.Open
End With
'setup the command
Set cmd.ActiveConnection = cnx
cmd.CommandType = adCmdText
cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM [" & sheetName & "$]"
rst.CursorLocation = adUseClient
rst.CursorType = adOpenDynamic
rst.LockType = adLockOptimistic
'open the connection
rst.Open cmd
'disconnect the recordset
Set rst.ActiveConnection = Nothing
'cleanup
If CBool(cmd.State And adStateOpen) = True Then
Set cmd = Nothing
End If
If CBool(cnx.State And adStateOpen) = True Then cnx.Close
Set cnx = Nothing
'"return" the recordset object
Set RecordSetFromSheet = rst
End Function
Public Sub Test()
Dim rstData As ADODB.Recordset
Set rstData = RecordSetFromSheet("Sheet1")
Sheets("Sheet2").Range("A1").CopyFromRecordset rstData
End Sub
The Sheet1 data:
Field1 Field2 Field3
Red A 1
Blue B 2
Green C 3
What should be copied to Sheet2:
Red A 1
Blue B 2
Green C 3
This is saving me a HUGE amount of time from querying against SQL every time I want to make a change and test it out...
--Robert
Easiest would be to use rs.Save "filename"
and rs.Open "filename"
to serialize client-side recordsets to files.