You need to connect to the ‘Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.X Library’ where X might be 2.5, 2.6, etc – whatever is the latest installed on your system.

This is not the same library as Microsoft ADO Ext. 2.8 for DDL and Security.

cheers,
Christopher

Could anybody explain if I need to set a reference to a library ( I already tried setting reference to Microsoft ADO Ext. 2.8 for DDL and Security) but that doesn’t help).

Thanks for any help!

Martin

P.S. I Use excel 2003

I think that Paradox and MySql are not in the drivers package, so “databases” is also below 100%. Oh well.

Best wishes Harald

The table says in the first article reads:

Windows XP, MDAC 2.5 SP2: Cannot be installed

I can’t get Microsoft’s DLL database to confirm but I still think it is a safe bet that if a user has Excel then they will have ADO and a Jet version that can be updated to the latest version of Jet 4.0 via a Windows Update.

Jamie.

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Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) Installation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnmdac/html/data_mdacinstall.asp

For the MDAC donloads, see:

MDAC Downloads
http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/mdac/default.aspx

Jamie.

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I that is not 100% correct:

‘the Jet database engine is included in versions earlier than MDAC 2.6. MDAC also includes several ODBC drivers and OLE DB providers for common data sources, including … Jet (earlier than MDAC 2.6).

In MDAC versions that are later than MDAC 2.6, Jet is not included with the MDAC components set; therefore, the Jet engine core components, the Jet ODBC driver, and the Jet OLE DB provider are no longer included as a part of MDAC.’

However, there is still hope:

‘The latest Jet components are available as a part of MDAC 2.5 SP2. If you want to use MDAC 2.6 or later (including the latest Jet components), first install MDAC 2.5 SP2, and then upgrade to the latest Jet components.’

Extracts from:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mdacsdk/htm/mdac_deprecated_components.asp

Jamie.

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Yes, it will work fine. MDAC / ADO contains everything you need to read/write to databases (except a user interface, that is). I have lots of users that use Access mdb files from Excel and Word, without knowing it and without Access installed on their systems.

For instance, when I crunch my UPS files (50,000+ lines per month) I can’t ever do it on a quarterly basis. I have Access, but one of the managers who would like to see the data summed by quarter doesn’t.

Could I use this to get the quarter sums to them?

Stacie

adoRs.ActiveConnection = Nothing
adoCn.Close

I prefer to use Filter rather than Find but that’s just a lifestyle choice (mine’s a Steeleye Stout, cheers).

Jamie.

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