MS Access - execute a saved query by name in VBA

Question

How do I execute a saved query in MS Access 2007 in VBA?

I do not want to copy and paste the SQL into VBA. I rather just execute the name of the query.

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Answer 1

You should investigate why VBA can't find queryname.

I have a saved query named qryAddLoginfoRow. It inserts a row with the current time into my loginfo table. That query runs successfully when called by name by CurrentDb.Execute.

CurrentDb.Execute "qryAddLoginfoRow"

My guess is that either queryname is a variable holding the name of a query which doesn't exist in the current database's QueryDefs collection, or queryname is the literal name of an existing query but you didn't enclose it in quotes.

Edit: You need to find a way to accept that queryname does not exist in the current db's QueryDefs collection. Add these 2 lines to your VBA code just before the CurrentDb.Execute line.

Debug.Print "queryname = '" & queryname & "'"
Debug.Print CurrentDb.QueryDefs(queryname).Name

The second of those 2 lines will trigger run-time error 3265, "Item not found in this collection." Then go to the Immediate window to verify the name of the query you're asking CurrentDb to Execute.

Answer 2

You can do it the following way:

DoCmd.OpenQuery "yourQueryName", acViewNormal, acEdit

OR

CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("yourQueryName")

Answer 3

To use CurrentDb.Execute, your query must be an action query, AND in quotes.

CurrentDb.Execute "queryname"