Re: VB 6 pro to postgres suggestion needed

You should use ADO objects, in particular ADO.Connection and
ADO.recordset, maybe also ADO.Command. Connection represents
a connection to the database and can execute queries and transactions,
Recordset can be thought as a cursor. The you can bind it directly
to visual controls... something like this:

Private conn As ADODB.Connection
Private rec As ADODB.Recordset

Private Sub Form_Load()
  Set conn = New Connection
  conn.CursorLocation = adUseClient
  conn.ConnectionString = "DSN=PersonDatabase"
  conn.Open

  Set rec = conn.Execute("SELECT name, surname FROM person")
  Set txtName.DataSource = rec
  Set txtName.DataField = "name"
  Set txtSurname.DataChanged = rec
  Set txtSurname.DataField = "surname"

  ' If you want to move to the next record of you "cursor"
  rec.MoveNext
  ' If you want to move to the previous record of your "cursor"
  rec.MovePrevious
End Sub

Of course you should install the ODBC driver, set a Data Source Name
in ODBC properties and reference ADO from your project.
Hope this helps
Andrea Aime

Pat M wrote:
>
> I have scads of documentation on how to connect to and use databases with
> VB. Problem is, there's TOO much damned information. Appears that there is
> about 9,932,234.3 methods available.
>
> Can anyone suggest what method would be the closest to just using SQL and
> not having all these stupid widgety in the way? Something that would act
> more like the pg functions of PHP (pg_connect, pg_exec, that sort of thing)
> instead of making me bind databases and tables to little push buttony kludgy
> MS junk...
>
> Oh yes, I'm aiming for a pure client/server - no activex middle tiers or
> anything like that.
>
> I have the docs so don't feel obligated to try and explain the whole
> process. just point me and I'll read 8)
>
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