CommandType Property

Microsoft Excel Visual Basic

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property. The default value is xlCmdSQL. Read/write XlCmdType.

XlCmdType can be one of these XlCmdType constants.

xlCmdCube. Contains a cube name for an OLAP data source.

xlCmdDefault. Contains command text that the OLE DB provider understands.

xlCmdSql. Contains an SQL statement.

xlCmdTable. Contains a table name for accessing OLE DB data sources.

expression.CommandType

Remarks

You can set the CommandType property only if the value of the QueryType property for the query table or PivotTable cache is xlOLEDBQuery.

If the value of the CommandType property is xlCmdCube, you cannot change this value if there is a PivotTable report associated with the query table.

Example

This example sets the command string for the first query table’s ODBC data source. The command string is an SQL statement.

Set qtQtrResults = _
    Workbooks(1).Worksheets(1).QueryTables(1)
With qtQtrResults
    .CommandType = xlCmdSQL
    .CommandText = _
        "Select ProductID From Products Where ProductID < 10"
    .Refresh
End With

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