I'm using Excel to pull data from an SQL db. I used the code from another SO question and it works fine. Now I want to pull in the column names from a table in addition to the actual table. I figured out that I could get the names using the For Each fld loop. However there's still the issue of populating them horizontally in a row in Excel as the number of columns might change - so I'm thinking I would need another For each loop also or something similar.
Sub GetDataFromADO()
'Declare variables'
Set objMyConn = New ADODB.Connection
Set objMyCmd = New ADODB.Command
Set objMyRecordset = New ADODB.Recordset
'Open Connection'
objMyConn.ConnectionString = "Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=localhost;User ID=abc;Password=abc;"
objMyConn.Open
'Set and Excecute SQL Command'
Set objMyCmd.ActiveConnection = objMyConn
objMyCmd.CommandText = "select * from myTable"
objMyCmd.CommandType = adCmdText
objMyCmd.Execute
'Loop Names'
' WHAT TO DO HERE????'
'Open Recordset'
Set objMyRecordset.ActiveConnection = objMyConn
objMyRecordset.Open objMyCmd
'Copy Data to Excel'
ActiveSheet.Range("A1").CopyFromRecordset (objMyRecordset)
End Sub
Ok so I figured it out after 4 attempts, here's the code for the loop.
'Loop'
Dim FieldRange As Range
Set FieldRange = Range("A4")
Set TableColumns = Range("A4:H4")
x = 1
Range("A4").Select
For Each fld in objMyRecordset.Fields
ActiveCell.Value = fld.Name
ActiveCell.Offset(0, x).Select
x = x + 1 'tick iterator
Next
ActiveSheet.Range("A5").CopyFromRecordset objMyRecordset
Range("A4").Select