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Hello,
I'm using Excel VBA to connect to SQL Server and get accounting data from accounting software. There are several databases (companies) in accounting software, but they all look alike.
Whenever I connect to database (company) "A" with User ID, password, SQL query, I get recordset and can analyse the data. However, when I connect to database (company) "B" with the same User ID, password and SQL query, I get error message.
I made some checks and found that SQL Query code is the same both in database "A" and "B", parameters of SQL are also the same. User exists both in database "A" and "B".
What could be the problem and how can I solve it?
The explanation that comes first to mind is that the user has permission to create views in database A, but not in database B. CREATE VIEW is a fairly hefty permission, so it is nothing to take for granted.
So this would mean, that permission for the user has to be parametrized in the accounting software?
Since I don't know your accounting software, I can't say whether you should set up the permissions there.
On SQL Server level you need to have CREATE VIEW permission in the database, and also ALTER permission on the schema.
I should clarify that the permissions thing is a guess on my part. The actual error message from SQL Server has been lost. One way to retrieve this is to run Profiler and capture the event Error:Exception. But this also requires permissions enough to do.
Thanks for your suggestions. I got deeper into SQL coding and managed to capture actual SQL error message. The error says, that currency FX rates are missing for particular date. I suspect that due to this error the query crashes and doesn't pass data back to me. Now that I know the real error message, I'll try to solve it.
Thanks for reporting back!
This goes to show once again that as long you don't have the original error message, you are very much in the dark of what is wrong.
I am glad to hear that you were able to find out what was wrong!
Hi @waldux ,
What could be the problem and how can I solve it?
1.Please make sure you have tested with the correct database path;(You can clear the cache and refresh then connect again,maybe it save the first db path as the second one)
2.If there are spaces in your column name as Column Name , please change it as [Column Name] to have a test.
This case may be helpful: run-time-error-2147217900-80040e14-automation-error
BR,
Mia
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Mia