Error '1004' When Using the SQLRequest Macro Function

• Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0c
• Microsoft Excel for Windows NT, version 5.0
• Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0

SYMPTOMS

In the versions of Microsoft Excel listed above, you may receive the following error message when you use the SQLRequest function in a Visual Basic, Applications Edition, macro:

   Run-time error '1004':
   Run method of Application class failed

CAUSE

The SQLRequest function has an argument called ColNamesLogical, which specifies whether to return field headings. If this argument is set to TRUE, then in the case above you can only return up to 4094 elements or cells and 1 field heading. If ColNamesLogical is set to FALSE or is omitted, then you can return only 4095 records.

RESOLUTION

To return a result set with more than 4095 elements, use the SQLRetrieve function as it's used in the following sample procedure:

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Sample Visual Basic Procedure

This procedure opens a channel to a given data source, executes a query, retrieves the result set to the active cell on the active worksheet, and closes the channel opened by SQLOpen:

   Sub GetMyData()
       chan = SQLOpen("DSN=Nwind")

       ' Get all columns and records from the orders table.
       SQLExecQuery chan, "SELECT * FROM orders"

       ' Retrieve the results from SQLExecQuery to the active cell
       ' and include the field headings.
       SQLRetrieve chan, ActiveCell, , , True

       SQLClose chan
   End Sub

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

REFERENCES

For more information on the SQLRequest and SQLRetrieve functions choose the Search button in Visual Basic Reference Help and type:

   SQLRequest

   -or-

   SQLRetrieve.