Re: Help with Insertdatabase command

Hi Liam,

I installed Firebird here and the IBPhoenix 1.2 ODBC driver (which has the
same driver name as yours) and was able to connect from Word to a database
/on my local machine/ using code equivalent to the code we have discussed,
i.e with a FILEDSN= followed by login information. So the principle seems
sound - it's "just" the details that need to be thrashed out.

Peter Jamieson

"Peter Jamieson" <pjj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Liam,

Your .dsn file looks OK to me, as far as I can tell (since I don't have an
Interbase ODBC driver here)except that judging from your original connect
string the Dbname string probably needs to change, i.e. try

[ODBC]
DRIVER=Firebird/InterBase(r) driver
UID=RO
CHARSET=NONE
Dbname=srv01:e:\ibdata\live.fdb

Other than that I will see if there is anything else I can spot at my end.
Just to be on the safe side, try locating the .dsn on a path that doesn't
have any spaces in the name, and ensure the .dsn file is ANSI-encoded, not
Unicode (e.g. open it and try to save it in Notepad).

Peter Jamieson

"Liam" <Liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for this Peter

I have tried to set up a file dsn following the guidance on msdn and the
inscreen instructions

This is what I have ended up with as my clients.dsn file dsn:

[ODBC]
DRIVER=Firebird/InterBase(r) driver
UID=RO
CHARSET=NONE
Dbname=e:\ibdata\live.fdb

Although it let me create it, if i go into configure it it comes up with
the
error 'general error invalid file dsn'

If i try and connect to it in Word either stepping through it manually
using
the 'insert database' button in word and then using ms query I get the
error
'Your username and password are not defined. ask your administrator to
set up
a firebird login'.

IF I try dialog or database engine failures and then 'word could not open
the data source'

I have tried including the password in the file dsn but this does not
help.

Am I missing something in the nature of the ODBC connector that the
firebird
database allows, or is it something the way i am setting up the file dsn
do
you think?


This is the code I was trying to connect with

odatasource = "C:\Program Files\Common Files\ODBC\Data
Sources\clients.dsn"

ologin = "FILEDSN=" & odatasource & ";PWD=IA;UID=RO"

oSQL = "SELECT CLIENTS.CL_KEY, CLIENTS.CL_NAME " & _
" WHERE CLIENTS.CL_KEY='" & code & "'"

Selection.Range.InsertDatabase _
LinkToSource:=False, _
Connection:=ologin, _
SQLStatement:=oSQL, _
DataSource:=odatasource, _
IncludeFields:=False

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With best regards

Liam



"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

As far as I am aware, you have to provide InsertDatabase with a file
name
(and it will almost certainly have to be a file you can reach on a local
device or via Windows networking, not an Internet URL) in the Datasource
parameter, regardless of whether or not the connection string provides
everything you need to connect to your data source.

In this case, the only thing that is likely to work is to create a file
dsn
for your data source, let's call it

"c:\mydsns\ibdsn1.dsn"

and use, something like:

oDataSource = "c:\mydsns\ibdsn1.dsn"
oLogin = "FILEDSN=" & oDataSource & ";PWD=CA;UID=RO"
oSQL = "SELECT CLIENTS.CL_KEY, CLIENTS.CL_NAME " & _
" WHERE CLIENTS.CL_KEY='" & code & "'"
Selection.Range.InsertDatabase _
LinkToSource:=False, _
Connection:=oLogin, _
SQLStatement:=oSQL, _
DataSource:=oDataSource, _
IncludeFields:=False

Since file DSNs are plain text files, they are reasonably easy to create
"on
the fly" should you need to do so, but if you end up doing that, it's
very
important that the driver name in the DSN matches the driver name on the
machine where the code is running.

No, I don't think this stuff is properly documented anywhere, and of
course
that means there could well be a way to do it without a file DSN...

Peter Jamieson

"Liam" <Liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi there

With some help from user forum postings I have got the following
command
to
retreive information from an sql database and use it to populate
fields in
a
userform.

The trouble i am having is that when the code is executed, I cannot
stop
the
'Select Data Source' Window from appearing. The three choices that are
presented are +Connect to new data source, +Connect to SQL server
connection
and +Thumbs. The first is highlihghted by defualt, and the user just
needs
to
hit <Return> for the code to continue to run, but i would prefer that
this
user intervention was not required. Any thoughts gratefully
appreciated.

Here is the code i am using-



oLogin = "DSN=clients;Driver=Firebird/InterBase(r) driver;Dbname="
& _
"srv01:e:\ibdata\live.fdb;CHARSET=NONE;PWD=CA;UID=RO"

oSQL = "SELECT CLIENTS.CL_KEY, CLIENTS.CL_NAME " & _
" WHERE CLIENTS.CL_KEY='" & code & "'"

Selection.Range.InsertDatabase LinkToSource:=False,
Connection:=oLogin, _
SQLStatement:=oSQL, IncludeFields:=False


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With best regarads

Liam








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