Hello Michael, fine that you have found a workaround. But splitting the nested sql should be not the normal behavior to solve problems. Which database and ODBC version did you use? Regards, Burkhard
________________________________ From: Michael P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 17:56 To: Diesing, Burkhard Cc: List Subject: Re: update long + nested Sql Cmd => -8: Execution failed, parse again Hi Burkhard, thanks for your answer. I tried to call 'Prepare' several times but the error didn't vanish. I implemented it in a way that I called Me.oCommandM.Prepare() Me.oCommandM.ExecuteNonQuery() again and again (surrounded by Try-Catch-EndTry and a loop) with the hope that the error message may disappear after a few iterations, however it remained the same (The max. number of trials was set to 10). I solved the problem by splitting the nested sql cmd into two separate sql cmds. Best wishes Michael Diesing, Burkhard schrieb: Hi Michael, The documentation reads: for applications which are based on ODBC and apply the PREPARE-command the developer is responsible for the number of parse/EXECUTE orders. What does this mean? How can I fix the problem? It means that the application has to prepare/parse the command again. You can try it with a call to e.oCommandM.Prepare() If this doesn't help please post a zipped ODBC trace. To produce the trace have a look to http://sapdb.2scale.net/moin.cgi/ODBCTrace Regards, Burkhard -----Original Message----- From: Michael P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 04:24 To: List Subject: update long + nested Sql Cmd => -8: Execution failed, parse again Hi group, The command UPDATE table1 SET field0 = '332211', longfield1 = ?, longfield2 = ? WHERE id = (SELECT id_inTable1 FROM table2 WHERE id = 7117) created the error '-8: Execution failed, parse again'. The fields 'longfield1' and 'longfield2' of type long and have been specified in the parameters of the command beforehand and have also been 'prepared' (Deteils see below in the vb.net code). The fields 'longfield1' and 'longfield2' do only contain short strings such as 'hello maxdb' and 'this and that'. :-) The error does neither occur in sql-commands where I use "WHERE id = 17" instead of "WHERE id = (SELECT ...)" nor when I don't have to handle fields of type long. The documentation reads: for applications which are based on ODBC and apply the PREPARE-command the developer is responsible for the number of parse/EXECUTE orders. What does this mean? How can I fix the problem? Best wishes and thanx for help Michael The vb.net code: Dim nameOfFieldLongL As String Dim valueOfFieldLongL As String Dim iFieldL As Integer Dim nFieldsL As Integer nFieldsL = arrlistFieldsOfTypeLong_fieldNamesA.Count If Me.oCommandM.Parameters Is Nothing Then Me.oCommandM.CreateParameter() End If For iFieldL = 0 To nFieldsL - 1 nameOfFieldLongL = arrlistFieldsOfTypeLong_fieldNamesA(iFieldL) valueOfFieldLongL = arrlistFieldsOfTypeLong_fieldValuesA(iFieldL) valueOfFieldLongL = valueOfFieldLongL.Trim Me.oCommandM.Parameters.Add( _ "@" & nameOfFieldLongL, _ Odbc.OdbcType.NText).Value = valueOfFieldLongL Next Me.oCommandM.CommandText = sqlCommandA Me.oCommandM.Prepare() Me.oCommandM.ExecuteNonQuery() ' this line lead to '-8: Execution failed, parse again'