Spike,

If this is still an issue, posted more comments on Feb 8th @
21:00hrs... somehow or another is ended up in a seperate thead...

J


Spike:
think i have answered my own question, if you set the cursor to either

adOpenKeyset of adOpenStatic then you do get a return using
"recordcount"
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with kind regards

Spike


"J" wrote:

Why not just use the 'TOP' predicate regardless??

"Select top 65000 [x] From [y]..."

Note that TOP requires an ORDER BY clause or you'll just get abitary
records.

It's not an issue if less than the specified number of records are
returned, but you will not get any more than you want

Simplistic answer - there are other issues like keeping track of
where
you are if you need to import the remainder into another sheet.

Other than that, the recordset will have a RECORDCOUNT property, but
not
sure if this accurately reflects the record count just after
opening.
Remember DAO where you had to navigate to the lst record before you
could get an an accurate count? I'm sure a quick google should clear
that question up ...

J

Spike:
I will be grateful if someone will give me the code to determine
if
when
importing data using ADO from say Access toExcel if a recordset is
greater
than 65,536 rows. i appreciate this is not an issue with Excel
2007
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with kind regards

Spike