Depends on what you mean by "large amount". You could just run the update
SQL in a loop and performance should be pretty good (depending partly on the
performance of your DB).



--
Tim Williams
Palo Alto, CA


"Rubble" wrote in message
...
This is a helpful post for my situation -- is there any way I can push
data
directly into the MS SQL database w/o having to push one line at a time?
In
the example you showed it says "

sSQL = "INSERT INTO Contacts (FirstName, LastName,Phone, Notes) " & _
" VALUES ('Bob','Phillips','01202 345678','me')"

If I wanted to add a large amount of data directly from Excel (as opposed
to
the one record shown above) is there a good way to do that from VBA?
Maybe
where I have VBA export the info that I want to update or insert out to a
csv
file and then use the vba to pick up the csv file and push it into the MS
SQL
database?

Thanks --



"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Here are three routines that work with Access, you will need a different
connection string for SQL Server, probably something like

oConn.Open "Provider=sqloledb;" & _
"Data Source=myServerName;" & _
"Initial Catalog=myDatabaseName;" & _
"User Id=myUsername;" & _
"Password=myPassword"


Sub AddData()
Dim oConn As Object
Dim oRS As Object
Dim sSQL As String

Set oConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
oConn.Open = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _
"Data Source=" & "c:\bob.mdb"

sSQL = "INSERT INTO Contacts (FirstName, LastName,Phone, Notes) " &
_
" VALUES ('Bob','Phillips','01202 345678','me')"
oConn.Execute sSQL

oConn.Close
Set oConn = Nothing
End Sub

Sub GetData()
Const adOpenForwardOnly As Long = 0
Const adLockReadOnly As Long = 1
Const adCmdText As Long = 1
Dim oRS As Object
Dim sConnect As String
Dim sSQL As String
Dim ary

sConnect = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _
"Data Source=" & "c:\bob.mdb"

sSQL = "SELECT * From Contacts"
Set oRS = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
oRS.Open sSQL, sConnect, adOpenForwardOnly, _
adLockReadOnly, adCmdText

' Check to make sure we received data.
If Not oRS.EOF Then
ary = oRS.getrows
MsgBox ary(0, 0) & " " & ary(1, 0) & ", " & ary(2, 0)
Else
MsgBox "No records returned.", vbCritical
End If

oRS.Close
Set oRS = Nothing
End Sub

Sub UpdateData()
Const adOpenForwardOnly As Long = 0
Const adLockReadOnly As Long = 1
Const adCmdText As Long = 1
Dim oConn As Object
Dim oRS As Object
Dim sConnect As String
Dim sSQL As String
Dim ary

sConnect = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _
"Data Source=" & "c:\bob.mdb"

sSQL = "SELECT * From Contacts"
Set oRS = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
oRS.Open sSQL, sConnect, adOpenForwardOnly, _
adLockReadOnly, adCmdText

' Check to make sure we received data.
If oRS.EOF Then
MsgBox "No records returned.", vbCritical
Else
sSQL = "UPDATE Contacts " & _
" SET Phone = 'None' " & _
"WHERE FirstName = 'Bob' AND LastNAme = 'Phillips'"
oRS.ActiveConnection.Execute sSQL

sSQL = "SELECT * From Contacts"
oRS.ActiveConnection.Execute sSQL
ary = oRS.getrows
MsgBox ary(0, 0) & " " & ary(1, 0) & ", " & ary(2, 0)
End If


oRS.Close
Set oRS = Nothing
End Sub

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(remove nothere from email address if mailing direct)

"keithb" wrote in message
...
I need to use VBA code to update a table in a SQL Server database. I
have
not done anything like this before. Can someone point me in the right
direction?

Thanks,

Keith