Hi All! Long time. Anyway, I've got an application that I want to load on each of my service techs laptop. I want them to be able to enter information while they're in the field w/o a network connection. When a connection is found, enable a button for them to refresh the field data to a linked SQL server table. I want to check for the connection each time they open the database. Make sense? Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Kevin

dartcoach

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dartcoach

You can try to establish a connection to the server, and then if an error is thrown, do something, else... Like:

On Error Resume Next

Dim cn As ADODB.Connection

Set cn = New ADODB.Connection

Err.Clear

cn.Open "Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=ServerName;Initial Catalog=DatabaseName;UID=UserID;PWD=Password"

If Err <> 0 Then 'error was encountered trying to connect to database
   MsgBox "something"
   Exit Sub
Else
   Me.SynchButton.Enabled = True
End If

cn.Close 'in case there was not an error. If it wasn't opened, this would throw an error, except for on error resume next, I think.

Did that help?

mmcdonal

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mmcdonal,
Thanks for the quick response! I've put your code in, but get an error with the userid being wrong. I know it's valid. Do the Servername, Databasename, userid and password require quotes?

Thanks,
Kevin

dartcoach

If you put the userid and password in plain text, they should look like this:

cn.Open "Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=ServerName;Initial Catalog=DatabaseName;UID=UserID;PWD=Password"

If you put them in variables, they would look like this:

cn.Open "Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=ServerName;Initial Catalog=DatabaseName;UID=" & sUser & ";PWD=" & sPassword

Normally I would not link the tables for this sort of operation, so maybe there is an issue there?

Also, the SQL Server database should be set up to use SQL Server authentication, and not Windows NT authentication.

Did any of that help?

mmcdonal

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Yup it helps, but our database is set up for Windows NT authentication. I agree that linking is not the best way, but it does make coding easier! I've created an ODBC connection for the db to link the tables. Any way to use that connection?

Thanks,
Kevin

dartcoach

Got it! Used trusted connection - which internally will work fine.
Thanks for all your help!

Kevin

dartcoach