Get Query Result from SQL Server with VBA without CopyFromRecordSet

Question

I have the following VBA query from SQL-Server, returning just one result. My question is how to read it. So far I have found one way to do it, but I do not want to use it.

Dim rsData              As Object
Set rsData = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")

With rsData
    .ActiveConnection = cnLogs
    .Open "USE DB SELECT [VersionNumber] FROM Main WHERE [IsLastCurrent] = 1"
End With

Solution I do not want to use:

Cells(1, 1).CopyFromRecordset rsData

Answer 1

Try this change in SQL command:

With rsData
    .ActiveConnection = cnLogs
    .Open "USE DB; SELECT [VersionNumber] FROM Main WHERE [IsLastCurrent] = 1;"
End With

If (rsData.EOF = False) OR (rsData.BOF = False) Then
 'there are recordset
 myVar=   rsData.Fields(0).value
End If

rsData.Close

Answer 2

You can access the values in a Recordset record by record using the Fields property. When you first open a recordset, it is either empty (in which case recordset.BOF and recordset.EOF are both true) or it points to the first record in the set (in which case recordset.BOF and recordset.EOF are both false). You then access the data in that record using (for example):

rsData.Fields("VersionNumber").Value

and you can move through the records (if you have more than one) using the MoveFirst , MoveLast , MoveNext , and MovePrevious methods of the recordset object.

Answer 3

If you want to keep the data in memory, use an array variable like Dim rsArray as variant and then copy the record set to it with:

rsArray = rsData.GetRows