Access VBA show report using any sql

Do you mean something like "Dynamic Reports"....one time you get 10 fields, another 20 fields and so on... ?
If this is the case you need to either work in code to create Reports from code with the CreateControl method (but this means that you should work on .accdb database)  or instead have a lot of unbound fields that you populate dynamically using the OnFormat event of Report.

Murray,

Could you elaborate a little more on what you are hoping to build.

 Basically you'd need to do it all manually with an "un-bound" report (no recordsource set).

 You'd open your recordsource in the report's OnOpen event based on the SQL you've generated.  Then in the OnFormat of the detail section, you would push data from the current record of the recordset into un-bound controls as needed.

In the OnPrint event, you'd then do:

If  Not rst.EOF then
   Me.Movenext = False
End If

As you would not want the report engine trying to move to the next record (which as far as it is concerned, there is none).

Only when you reached the end of your record set processing would you want it to try and continue.

Jim.

This might be doable, but I don't think it is worth it.

Any "linked" thing in Access is tightly coupled with its data source, making them dynamic is asking for a lots of troubles.

thanks very much

You are welcome!