Undefined function 'fetch' for input arguments of type 'struct'. when reading and writing to an Access Database

Hi all,

This is my first question - please accept my apologies if I format incorrectly.

I call the below code in an infinite loop which runs smoothly for the first ~200 iterations then catches the "Undefined function 'fetch' for input arguments of type 'struct'." error. It is worth noting that in between each iteration I open and close several other tables within the same ODBC connection before reconnecting to this one.

What has me confused is that it runs as it should for the first few hundred iterations. My hunch is that one connection may not close properly but Im not certain.

setdbprefs('DataReturnFormat', 'cellarray');
setdbprefs('NullNumberRead', 'NaN');
setdbprefs('NullStringRead', 'null');
conn = database('ACCESS DB', '', '');
curs = exec(conn, ['SELECT   TABLE1.ID_DB'...
    ' FROM   TABLE1 ']);
curs = fetch(curs);
close(curs);
close(conn);

Thanks in advance for any help!

[Fox Peterson]

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Make sure if you used the query builder in the Database toolbox to build your query that you go back into the script and manually type in your password, since it defaults to blank. I was wondering why I couldn't get a connection... I put the password in and of course it was smooth sailing from there.

[John Fredy Morales Tellez]

Thank you very much!

[saiharsha gayam]

where we can get the password and how to type it

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

My guess is that you are losing the connection to the database, but I have no idea why. I suggest you do the following. Type

>> dbstop if error

before you try to run that loop. Then execute your code. When the error occurs, the execution will halt, but you will be taken to the editor, at the line where the error occurred. You can see what the variables look like at the time of the error.

My version of your code ran for 500+ iterations, but when I deliberately broke the connection (by disconnecting my VPN), the code halted with the same error you got. The proximate cause of the error is that "curs", instead of being a full cursor object, is instead a structure that is just

curs.Message = 'Invalid connection.'

[Lachlan]

Thanks cyclist for your response.

I have tried your suggestion which yields a different error "sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcBatchUpdateException: General error". However in the process of doing this I think I have discovered the root cause. As the loop was running I opened up the database to confirm that the data was being written, in doing so I selected a cell inadvertently. The next loop then generates the error. This still has me a little confused as I had closed Access before re-executing the code only I got the error immediately. I think this confirms you correct that I was still connected to the DB form the previous execution and thus couldn't connect. It looks fine if I don't open it up mess around.