>>>My point is that the whole select can be done as few derived tables, e.g.
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>>>select ... from myothertable join (select ...from table1 join table2 on ... join (select something from table3 where ...) alias3 group by... etc.etc... ) X on ...
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>>That's what I tried first... "missing clause". It seems the OleDb is missing a few bits in the parser.
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>Are you sure you wrote it correctly? What error are you getting?

Fields collection doesn't work by names, only by index (!). EOF is .f., recordcount is -1 (!). Other than that, I actually got a recordset.

I don't know what I fixed and how, but it seems to work now, save for these few quirks. I can live with that, I spent enough time on this.