Question : Sporadic Numeric field overflow

Has anyone ever had an issue where executing query sometimes result in a numeric overflow error and sometimes runs just fine.  Same table data (the table is a  linked table to a excel
spreadsheet.  Not sure if this makes a difference but thought I would mention it)

This one is driving me nuts!

Answer : Sporadic Numeric field overflow

Can you pinpoint where the overflow occurs? Is it an ID field growing beyond capacity, is it a result (or intermediate result) that overflows? You speak of a query and of VBA, does it occur in Jet or in VBA? Then there is Excel, some text expressions will be interpreted as large number, e.g. a "serial number" like "1E-54" could be interpreted numerically.

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