Just a guess: maybe you have a single quote in your query that has
accidentally got outside of some double quotes; so the string from
that point onward is treated as a comment.

Something like:

SQL = "Select * from myTable where name="' & strName & "' and [... etc]
(with name="' << double quote then single ;
should be .. name='" << single quote then double)

This would be fairly obvious as the comment part would appear as green.

If that doesn't help, I think you need to post your code.

Andrew


Sajit wrote:

I have an SQL string in a Excel VBA code equated to a string variable. The
SQL is to import data from a group of SQL Server tables. The string is fairly
long. While trying to continue to the next line about 8 0r 10 times, VBA
gives me an error saying that I have exceeded the number of permitted
continuations allowed. I therefore broke the string into 2 and assigned it to
2 variables and then concated the 2.

However when I check string1, I notice that it did not contain all of the
right hand side of the equation. (string1 = "select * from ....). string =
string1 & string2. There does not seem to be any syntax error with the
string. That is, with the & and continuation _. I see in the VBA help that
the allowed lengths are as,

A variable-length string can contain up to approximately 2 billion (2^31)
characters.


A fixed-length string can contain 1 to approximately 64K (2^16) characters.

The strings are not that long. Wonder what is the limitation that cut shorts
the length of the string.