Data Type Mismatch Error on Open Recordset

**masouder** · 10-14-2016, 11:07 PM

I am running SQL select queries against data in an Excel sheet. These queries have WHERE clauses. When I run a query with a WHERE clause on a numeric column I get a Data Type Mismatch error when the first record in the data set has a null value in the WHERE clause column.

For example, assume the following: SELECT @ FROM [Data$] WHERE [Year] = 2015. If the first record has a blank in the Year column then Excel returns the error. If I put any number in the first record in the Year column (e.g., 0) then the query runs fine.

Any ideas on how to avoid this error?

**Trebor76** · 10-15-2016, 01:07 AM

Hi masouder,

It's been awhile since I used SQL but you could use an Immediate IF (IIF) statement to check for an empty field and return a zero if it is like so:

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HTH

Robert

**masouder** · 10-15-2016, 11:29 AM

Robert,

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, that did not work, nor did: IIF([Year]='',0,[Year]).

Any other ideas?

Michael

**AliGW** · 10-15-2016, 11:38 AM

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**masouder** · 10-15-2016, 11:56 AM

I made the mistake of posting this to two bulletin boards (unaware that that was not cool). The other post is at:

http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-q...recordset.html

Michael

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