MSQuery: DDE Command Fetch.Unadvise Does Not Break Link

• Microsoft Query for Windows, version 1.0
• Microsoft Query for Windows 95, version 2.0

SYMPTOMS

When you use the Microsoft Query Fetch.Unadvise DDE command to break a link that was created with Fetch.Advise, the link may not be broken.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, close each query window when you are finished working with it and then create a new one with the Microsoft Query DDE command OPEN. The following macro is an example of using this method.

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To run the macro, do the following:

1. Start Microsoft Query.

2. Create a data source with the name of "Nwind" (without the quotation marks), using the dBASE files included with Microsoft Excel.

3. In the workbook that contains the macro code, make sure there is a worksheet named Sheet1.

4. Type the following procedure into a module sheet:

      Sub Using_FetchAdvise()
      Dim NumRows
      Dim NumCols
   
      'create a channel to Query
      chan = DDEInitiate("MSQuery", "System")
   
      'log onto the NWind data source
      DDEExecute chan, "[Logon('nwind')]"
   
      'issue a select statement
      DDEExecute chan, "[Open('Select * From Customer')]"
   
      'request the number of rows and columns in the result set
      NumRows = DDERequest(chan, "NumRows")
      NumCols = DDERequest(chan, "NumCols")
   
      'return the data to the Excel sheet with a hot link
      DDEExecute chan, "[Fetch.Advise('Excel','Sheet1','R1C1:R" & NumRows(1) _
      & "C" & NumCols(1) & "','All/Headers')]"
   
      'stops the macro
      'at this point you can go into Query and change the data so that it will
      'update the data on sheet1
      'Press F5 to continue the macro
      Stop
   
      'close the query window
      DDEExecute chan, "[Close()]"
   
      'issue a select statement
      DDEExecute chan, "[Open('select * from customer')]"
   
      'request the number of rows and columns in the result set
      NumRows = DDERequest(chan, "NumRows")
      NumCols = DDERequest(chan, "NumCols")
   
      'return the data to the Microsoft Excel sheet with a hot link
      DDEExecute chan, "[Fetch.Advise('Excel','Sheet1','R1C1:R" & NumRows(1) _
      & "C" & NumCols(1) & "','All/Headers')]"
   
      'close the query window
      DDEExecute chan, "[Close()]"
   
      'logoff of NWind
      DDEExecute chan, "[Logoff('NWind')]"
   
      'terminate the DDE channel
      DDETerminate chan
   
      End Sub
   
   

5. Run the macro.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

REFERENCES

"Microsoft Query User's Guide," version 1.0, Chapter 9, "Using Dynamic Data Exchange with Microsoft Query"

For more information about Fetch.UnAdvise, click the Search button in Microsoft Query Help and type:

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