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Visual Basic/Databases
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Database management as a subject in its own right is far too big to be dealt with in this book and would distract from the principal subject which is programming in VB Classic. Nonetheless we can can explain the basics of connecting to databases, retrieving information from them and so on.
The usual way to connect to a database from VB is to use ADO (ActiveX Data Objects).
Connecting to Databases usually happens with a connection string. Here are some example connection strings to connect to some common database types