Database - What does this error mean, and how do I fix it?

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"Multi-step OLE DB operation generated errors. ..."

What it means:

The error message simply means that one or more errors happened... how useful!

How to solve it:

If this occurred when opening a connection, your connection details (or software) are likely to be wrong – so check that they are correct, see above for more info.

The actual errors will be listed somewhere, most likely in object variables that you are using to work with the database. For ADODB code, you can check what the errors were by looking at the Errors collection of the connection object (eg: objConn.Errors) by either adding it as a Watch value in the VB editor, or by iterating the collection in code, eg:

Dim vErr as Variant  
  For Each vErr In objConn.Errors  'change to the name of your connection object
    Debug.Print "ADO error - " & vErr.Number & ": " & vErr.Description
  Next vErr

Once you know what the actual errors are (they may be ones listed on this article), you can work on fixing them appropriately.

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