RE: VB Native Data Access on i-series database

This is ado.net. It's not ODBC per se' but it sort of is. They're just .net constructs that are optimized for SQL Server or Oracle. They really don't perform THAT much better than ODBC or ADODB.

Our .net guys were telling me about a new library of classes that use expression level access to sql server without having to create connections and what not. Some sort of Link classes.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lim Hock-Chai
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:43 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: VB Native Data Access on i-series database

Below is what I found (Again, I'm not familiar with VB at all):

Statement below uses ODBC:
Dim cmdMcbellRead As New OdbcCommand("SELECT REFKEY,
SUBSTRING(REFDAT,1,30) FROM " & libBOSS & ".REFERPL10 WHERE REFCAT='CUC'
AND SUBSTRING(REFDAT,31,3)='NAT'", cnMcBell1)


Statement below uses native access (which he said is not support for iseries database):
Dim cmdSalesDelete As New SqlCommand("Delete From dbo.NAMGroups",
cnSales)



"Grizzly Malchow" <grizzlym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:<mailman.7526.1228406010.13295.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>...
I'm not sure what Native Database Access for VB is, but I know OLEDB and ADO can be used in VB to access the DB2 database on the System i. If I remember correctly Client Access has data providers for ODBC, OLEDB, and ADO. All of which can be used in VB provided that Client Access is installed.

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