Ok guys! The problem seems to be much easier to be solved than first thought. -->Shoot<-- Using the correct CreateParameter statement seems to do the trick. For example creating the parameter as cmd.CreateParameter(name,const.adVarChar, const.adParamInput, Size=16, Value=value[i]) # Name, Type, Direction, Size, Value
works pretty good with the LIKE statement For the IN statement I have not yet found a good way. As of now in am looping through the values and creating various parameters Snippet: ## ##Global initialization ## typeMap= { types.IntType: const.adInteger, types.LongType: const.adBigInt, } query = "SELECT * FROM tb_name WHERE firstname IN %(in_params)" ## ##add parameters and construct the ? values for the in statements ##Note the code below is a pseudo type thing and can contain syntax errors ## in_parameters = [1,2,3,4,5] n_index = 0 in_params = '' for i in in_parameters: in_params += '?,' name = 'name_%s' % i p=cmd.CreateParameter(name, typeMap[type(i)], const.adParamInput, Size=16, Value=i) # Name, Type, Direction, Value cmd.Parameters.Append(p) query = query % {'in_params': in_params[:-1]} Any inputs to improve the IN statement logic? My dream is to use just one create parameter for the SQL list so that the query looks like query = "SELECT * FROM tb_name WHERE firstname IN ?" Nice and easy... :-) Thanks in advance! /Raja Raman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list