Hi

I wrote a vba function that should return data to the excel spreadshee
after querying the Oracle database. I have installed and created
Microsoft ODBC connection for Oracle on my workstation.

If I manually open excel workbook and navigate to Data, Get Externa
Data, New Database Query, connect to the database, click on the SQ
pushbutton and paste the query, click OK and hit the Return Dat
pushbutton, the query return data to the spreadsheet without an
issues.

I recorded all the above steps in a Macro and wrote a similar vb
function for extracting data for another table. I then reopened anothe
workbook, navigated to Tools, Macro, Visual Basic Editor and pasted th
vba function that I wrote over there and executed it.

It then gives me this error "Run Time Error '1004' General ODBC Error"
When I click on the Debug, it highlights the following line of code i
yellow:
.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False

Here is the query I am using. This query reads data from all the Ke
fields of the same table from 2 database instances (source and target
and retrieves all the rows that are missing in either of the database
[(Source - Target) + (Target - Source)]:
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Select
'In PSP2 and not in PSE2' INSTANCES,
ACTION,
ACTION_REASON,
EFFDT
from PS_ACTN_REASON_TBL

MINUS

Select
'In PSP2 and not in PSE2' INSTANCES,
ACTION,
ACTION_REASON,
EFFDT
from PS_ACTN_REASON_TBL@COMPARE_PSE2

UNION ALL

Select
'In PSE2 and not in PSP2' INSTANCES,
ACTION,
ACTION_REASON,
EFFDT
from PS_ACTN_REASON_TBL@COMPARE_PSE2

MINUS

Select
'In PSE2 and not in PSP2' INSTANCES,
ACTION,
ACTION_REASON,
EFFDT
from PS_ACTN_REASON_TBL

Below is the Macro I wrote to execute this query. I masked the value
of UID and PWD here purposefully. Here PSP2 and PSE2 are 2 seperat
database instances. :
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Sub CompareMissingMacro1()

With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:= _
"ODBC;DRIVER={Microsoft ODBC fo
Oracle};UID=<userid>;PWD=<password>;SERVER=PSP2;", _
Destination:=Range("A1"))
.CommandText = Array( _
"Select 'In PSP2 and not in PSE1' INSTANCES, ACTION, ACTION_REASON
EFFDT from PS_ACTN_REASON_TBL" & Chr(13) & "" & Chr(10) _
, _
"MINUS" & Chr(13) & "" & Chr(10) _
, _
"Select 'In PSP2 and not in PSE1' INSTANCES, ACTION, ACTION_REASON
EFFDT from PS_ACTN_REASON_TBL@COMPARE_PSE1" & Chr(13) & "" & Chr(10) _
, _
"UNION ALL" & Chr(13) & "" & Chr(10) _
, _
"Select 'In PSE1 and not in PSP2' INSTANCES, ACTION, ACTION_REASON
EFFDT from PS_ACTN_REASON_TBL@COMPARE_PSE1" & Chr(13) & "" & Chr(10) _
, _
"MINUS" & Chr(13) & "" & Chr(10) _
, _
"Select 'In PSE1 and not in PSP2' INSTANCES, ACTION, ACTION_REASON
EFFDT from PS_ACTN_REASON_TBL" & Chr(13) & "" & Chr(10) _
)
.Name = "Query from ora_psp2"
.FieldNames = True
.RowNumbers = False
.FillAdjacentFormulas = False
.PreserveFormatting = True
.RefreshOnFileOpen = False
.BackgroundQuery = True
.RefreshStyle = xlInsertDeleteCells
.SavePassword = True
.SaveData = True
.AdjustColumnWidth = True
.RefreshPeriod = 0
.PreserveColumnInfo = True
.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False
End With
Sheets("Sheet1").Select
Sheets("Sheet1").Name = "ACTN_REASON_TBL"
End Sub

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I would appreciate if anyone can look into this and shred some light a
to what is causing this error to occur. Pls let me know if you need mor
info.

Thank you
Siv

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