ASA Programming Guide
The OLE DB and ADO Programming Interfaces
ADO programming with Adaptive Server Anywhere
This section describes a simple routine that sends a simple SQL statement to the database.
You can try this routine by placing a command button named Command2 on a form, and pasting the routine into its Click event. Run the program and click the button to connect, display a message on the database server window, and then disconnect.
Private Sub cmdUpdate_Click() ' Declare variables Dim myConn As New ADODB.Connection Dim myCommand As New ADODB.Command Dim cAffected As Long ' Establish the connection myConn.Provider = "ASAProv" myConn.ConnectionString = _ "Data Source=ASA 9.0 Sample" myConn.Open 'Execute a command myCommand.CommandText = _ "update customer set fname='Liz' where id=102" Set myCommand.ActiveConnection = myConn myCommand.Execute cAffected MsgBox CStr(cAffected) + " rows affected.", vbInformation myConn.Close End Sub
After establishing a connection, the example code creates a Command object, sets its CommandText property to an update statement, and sets its ActiveConnection property to the current connection. It then executes the update statement and displays the number of rows affected by the update in a message box.
In this example, the update is sent to the database and committed as soon as it is executed.
For information on using transactions within ADO, see Using transactions.
You can also carry out updates through a cursor.
For more information, see Updating data through a cursor.