Pulling Column Names into Excel from SQL query

firedrawndagger picture firedrawndagger · Nov 16, 2010 · Viewed 71.1k times · Source

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

Answer

dendarii picture dendarii · Nov 18, 2010

My usual code is very similar:

For intColIndex = 0 To objMyRecordset.Fields.Count - 1 
    Range("A4").Offset(0, intColIndex).Value = objMyRecordset.Fields(intColIndex).Name
Next