Find method example (VB)

Applies to: Access 2013, Office 2013

This example uses the Recordset object's Find method to locate and count the number of business titles in the Pubs database. The example assumes the underlying provider does not support similar functionality.

 
'BeginFindVB 
 
 'To integrate this code 
 'replace the data source and initial catalog values 
 'in the connection string 
 
Public Sub Main() 
 On Error GoTo ErrorHandler 
 
 ' connection and recordset variables 
 Dim Cnxn As New ADODB.Connection 
 Dim rstTitles As New ADODB.Recordset 
 Dim strCnxn As String 
 Dim strSQLTitles As String 
 
 ' record variables 
 Dim mark As Variant 
 Dim count As Integer 
 
 ' open connection 
 Set Cnxn = New ADODB.Connection 
 strCnxn = "Provider='sqloledb';Data Source='MySqlServer';" & _ 
 "Initial Catalog='Pubs';Integrated Security='SSPI';" 
 Cnxn.Open strCnxn 
 
 ' open recordset with default parameters which are 
 ' sufficient to search forward through a Recordset 
 Set rstTitles = New ADODB.Recordset 
 strSQLTitles = "SELECT title_id FROM titles" 
 rstTitles.Open strSQLTitles, Cnxn, adOpenStatic, adLockReadOnly, adCmdText 
 
 count = 0 
 rstTitles.Find "title_id LIKE 'BU%'" 
 
 Do While Not rstTitles.EOF 
 'continue if last find succeeded 
 Debug.Print "Title ID: "; rstTitles!title_id 
 'count the last title found 
 count = count + 1 
 ' note current position 
 mark = rstTitles.Bookmark 
 rstTitles.Find "title_id LIKE 'BU%'", 1, adSearchForward, mark 
 ' above code skips current record to avoid finding the same row repeatedly; 
 ' last arg (bookmark) is redundant because Find searches from current position 
 Loop 
 
 Debug.Print "The number of business titles is " & count 
 
 ' clean up 
 rstTitles.Close 
 Cnxn.Close 
 Set rstTitles = Nothing 
 Set Cnxn = Nothing 
 Exit Sub 
 
ErrorHandler: 
 ' clean up 
 If Not rstTitles Is Nothing Then 
 If rstTitles.State = adStateOpen Then rstTitles.Close 
 End If 
 Set rstTitles = Nothing 
 
 If Not Cnxn Is Nothing Then 
 If Cnxn.State = adStateOpen Then Cnxn.Close 
 End If 
 Set Cnxn = Nothing 
 
 If Err <> 0 Then 
 MsgBox Err.Source & "-->" & Err.Description, , "Error" 
 End If 
End Sub 
'EndFindVB