PRB: DataEnvironment Cannot Execute Stored Procedures with More Than 60 Parameters (225496)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition for Windows 6.0
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows 6.0
This article was previously published under Q225496

SYMPTOMS

When you try to execute a stored procedure that has 60 parameters or more using the Data Environment designer by passing the parameters within your Form module, you would get the following Compiler error:
Subscript out of range
The same error would occur if you try executing the same stored procedure using the User Connection Designer within Visual Basic 5.0 and 6.0 applications.

CAUSE

This is a Visual Basic limitation. Visual Basic does not let you create methods with more than 60 arguments.

The behavior basically occurs when you try to invoke any method with more than 60 parameters (or arguments) within your Visual Basic application using early binding. This behavior does not happen when you use late binding to invoke the same method within your Visual Basic application.

The following is from the Visual Basic Help file:

   A procedure can have only 60 arguments. This error has the following cause and solution: 

	. You specified more than 60 arguments.

   If you must specify more arguments, define a user-defined type to collect multiple arguments of different types, or use a ParamArray as the final argument and pass multiple values to it. You can also pass multiple arguments by placing them in an array.

   For additional information, select the item in question and press F1.

RESOLUTION

If you are using the Data Environment Designer:

Pass the parameters using the Call Syntax within the Data Environment as follows:
  1. Right-click on your Command within the Data Environment Designer.
  2. Click on Properties.
  3. On the General tab, type your Call syntax under Sql Statement: 
         {Call TestProc61 ('1', '2', '3', ... '59', '60', '61')}
    -or-

    Use the ADO command object to execute your procedure.

If you are using the User Connection Designer:

Use the rdoQuery object to execute your procedure.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

The following sample demonstrates the behavior with the Data Environment Designer. Similar steps could be followed to reproduce the behavior with the User Connection Designer.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Building the SQL Server test table:

CREATE TABLE dbo.tblTest (
Column1 char (5) NULL , Column2 char (5) NULL , Column3 char (5) NULL , Column4 char (5) NULL , Column5 char (5) NULL , Column6 char (5) NULL , Column7 char (5) NULL , Column8 char (5) NULL , Column9 char (5) NULL , Column10 char (5) NULL , Column11 char (5) NULL , Column12 char (5) NULL, Column13 char (5) NULL ,Column14 char (5) NULL , Column15 char (5) NULL, Column16 char (5) NULL ,Column17 char (5) NULL , Column18 char (5) NULL, Column19 char (5) NULL ,Column20 char (5) NULL , Column21 char (5) NULL, Column22 char (5) NULL ,Column23 char (5) NULL , Column24 char (5) NULL, Column25 char (5) NULL ,Column26 char (5) NULL , Column27 char (5) NULL, Column28 char (5) NULL ,Column29 char (5) NULL , Column30 char (5) NULL, Column31 char (5) NULL ,Column32 char (5) NULL , Column33 char (5) NULL, Column34 char (5) NULL ,Column35 char (5) NULL , Column36 char (5) NULL, Column37 char (5) NULL ,Column38 char (5) NULL , Column39 char (5) NULL, Column40 char (5) NULL ,Column41 char (5) NULL , Column42 char (5) NULL, Column43 char (5) NULL ,Column44 char (5) NULL , Column45 char (5) NULL, Column46 char (5) NULL ,Column47 char (5) NULL , Column48 char (5) NULL, Column49 char (5) NULL ,Column50 char (5) NULL , Column51 char (5) NULL, Column52 char (5) NULL ,Column53 char (5) NULL , Column54 char (5) NULL, Column55 char (5) NULL ,Column56 char (5) NULL , Column57 char (5) NULL, Column58 char (5) NULL ,Column59 char (5) NULL , Column60 char (5) NULL ,Column61 char (5) NULL
)
GO

2. Building the SQL Server Stored Procedure with 61 parameters:

CREATE PROCEDURE procTest61
@Column1 char(10),@Column2 char(10),@Column3 char(10),@Column4 char(10), @Column5 char(10),@Column6 char(10),@Column7 char(10),@Column8 char(10), @Column9 char(10),@Column10 char(10),@Column11 char(10),@Column12 char(10), @Column13 char(10),@Column14 char(10),@Column15 char(10),@Column16 char(10),@Column17 char(10),@Column18 char(10),@Column19 char(10),@Column20 char(10),@Column21 char(10),@Column22 char(10),@Column23 char(10),@Column24 char(10),@Column25 char(10),@Column26 char(10),@Column27 char(10),@Column28 char(10),@Column29 char(10),@Column30 char(10),@Column31 char(10),@Column32 char(10),@Column33 char(10),@Column34 char(10),@Column35 char(10),@Column36 char(10),@Column37 char(10),@Column38 char(10),@Column39 char(10),@Column40 char(10),@Column41 char(10),@Column42 char(10),@Column43 char(10),@Column44 char(10),@Column45 char(10),@Column46 char(10),@Column47 char(10),@Column48 char(10),@Column49 char(10),@Column50 char(10),@Column51 char(10),@Column52 char(10),@Column53 char(10),@Column54 char(10),@Column55 char(10),@Column56 char(10),@Column57 char(10),@Column58 char(10),@Column59 char(10),@Column60 char(10),@Column61 char(10)

AS

Insert Into tblTest ( Column1,Column2,Column3,Column4,Column5,Column6,Column7,Column8,Column9, Column10,Column11,Column12,Column13,Column14,Column15,Column16,Column17, Column18,Column19,Column20,Column21,Column22,Column23,Column24,Column25, Column26,Column27,Column28,Column29,Column30,Column31,Column32,Column33, Column34,Column35,Column36,Column37,Column38,Column39,Column40,Column41, Column42,Column43,Column44,Column45,Column46,Column47,Column48,Column49, Column50,Column51,Column52,Column53,Column54,Column55,Column56,Column57, Column58,Column59,Column60,Column61 )
Values ( @Column1,@Column2,@Column3,@Column4,@Column5,@Column6,@Column7,@Column8, @Column9,@Column10,@Column11,@Column12,@Column13,@Column14,@Column15, @Column16,@Column17,@Column18,@Column19,@Column20,@Column21,@Column22, @Column23,@Column24,@Column25,@Column26,@Column27,@Column28,@Column29, @Column30,@Column31,@Column32,@Column33,@Column34,@Column35,@Column36, @Column37,@Column38,@Column39,@Column40,@Column41,@Column42,@Column43, @Column44,@Column45,@Column46,@Column47,@Column48,@Column49,@Column50, @Column51,@Column52,@Column53,@Column54,@Column55,@Column56,@Column57, @Column58, @Column59,@Column60,@Column61 )
GO

3. Building the Visual Basic Code with the Data Environment

  1. Create a Standard EXE project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.
  2. Add a DataEnvironment to the project. Connection1 is created by default.
  3. Set Connection1 to use the SQLOLEDB provider to connect to the your server's Pubs database, or use the MSDASQL provider to connect to a DSN pointing to your server's Pubs database.
  4. Insert a stored procedure, procTest61, to Connection1.
  5. Add a CommandButton to Form1 from the toolbox. Command1 is created by default.
  6. Add the following code to the Command1_Click event:
    Private Sub Command1_Click()

  ' Passing the parameters to execute procTest61 procedure 
    DataEnvironment1.dbo_procTest61 "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", 
           "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15", "16", "17", "18", "19",                                                       
           "20", "21", "22", "23", "24", "25", "26", "27", "28", "29",                                                      
           "30", "31", "32", "33", "34", "35", "36", "37", "38", "39",                                                        
           "40", "41", "42", "43", "44", "45", "46", "47", "48", "49",                                             
           "50", "51", "52", "53", "54", "55", "56", "57", "58", "59",                                               
           "60", "61"  
    
    MsgBox "Test passed Successfully..."

End Sub
  7. Once you hit the F5 key to run the project, you would get the Compiler error.NOTE: If you try to follow the same above steps to execute a stored procedure with 60 or less, you would not get the Compiler error.

REFERENCES

For more information, please refer to the Visual Basic documentation.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:8/23/2001
Keywords:kbDatabase kbDataEnv kbDSupport kbprb kbStoredProc KB225496
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