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Namespaces System.Data.OleDb – contain classes to connect with and modify any

datasource (both databases and XML datasources)

System.Data.SqlClient - similar to OleDb above but optimized to work

with Microsoft SQL Sever databases

Classes System.Data.DataSet - class that consists of a set of DataTables and

relationships among the DataTables. Mirrors the structure of a relational
databases but is disconnected from the database

System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection – class that provides a

connection to a datasource

System.Data.OleDb.OleAdapter – a class that can populate a DataSet

class from a datasource

System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand – Class containing an SQL

command to be executed on a datasource (this class does not cache
results in a DataSet). Each OleDbCommand must be given a
OleDbConnection to connect to the datasource
Example simple Connect to a DB2 datasource, execute the SQL entered in a text box and
connection and display the results to a DataGrid View.
retrieval

Public Class DB2Example

Friend WithEvents db2Connection As
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection
Friend WithEvents db2DataAdapter As
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter
Friend WithEvents db2Command As
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand
Friend WithEvents db2DataSet As System.Data.DataSet
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

db2Connection = New
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection("Provider=IBMDADB2.1;User
id=xxxxx;Password=yyyyy;Data Source=DSNP")
db2DataAdapter = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter()
db2DataSet = New System.Data.DataSet()

End Sub

Private Sub btnSubmit_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e

As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSubmit.Click
Dim table As New DataTable

Try
db2Connection.Open()
db2Command = New
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand(tbSQL.Text.ToString)
db2Command.Connection = db2Connection
db2DataAdapter.SelectCommand = db2Command
‘ execute the command and fill the DataTable with results

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db2DataAdapter.Fill(table)
dgvDataGrid.DataSource = table

‘ alternatively could have filled dataset and then passed first table to
‘ datagrid
‘db2DataSet.Clear()
‘db2DataAdapter.Fill(db2DataSet)
‘dgvDataGrid.DataSource = db2DataSet.Tables(0)

Catch oleDbException As System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException

MsgBox("Exception caught.")

Finally
db2Connection.Close()

End Try

End Sub
End Class
SQL commands and Much of this can be generated via the GUI tool
parameters

A simple select statement

Friend WithEvents oleDbSelectCommand As

System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand

oleDbSelectCommand = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand()

oleDbSelectCommand.CommandText = “Select emplname from

employees where emplid = ?”

oleDbSelectCommand.Parameters.Add (New
System.Data.OleDb.DbParameter(“emplid”,
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbType.Char, 10,
System.Data.ParameterDirection.Input, False, CType(0,Byte),
Ctype(0,Byte), “emplid”, System.Data.DataRowVersion.Current, Nothing))

A simple update statement

Friend WithEvents updateSQL As System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand

updateSQL = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand()

updateSQL.CommandText = “Update employees Set emplid = ? ,

emplname = ? where emplid = ?”

updateSQL.Add (New System.Data.OleDb.DbParameter(“emplid”,

System.Data.OleDb.OleDbType.Char, 10,
System.Data.ParameterDirection.Input, False, CType(0,Byte),
Ctype(0,Byte), “emplid”, System.Data.DataRowVersion.Current, Nothing))

updateSQL.Add (New System.Data.OleDb.DbParameter(“emplname”,

System.Data.OleDb.OleDbType.Char, 30,
System.Data.ParameterDirection.Input, False, CType(0,Byte),

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Ctype(0,Byte), “emplname”, System.Data.DataRowVersion.Current,

Nothing))

updateSQL.Add (New
System.Data.OleDb.DbParameter(“original_emplid”,
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbType.Char, 10,
System.Data.ParameterDirection.Input, False, CType(0,Byte),
Ctype(0,Byte), “emplid”, System.Data.DataRowVersion.Original, Nothing))

dataAdapter.UpdateCommand = updateSQL

‘ ExecuteNonQuery for insert/update/delete

dataAdapter.UpdateCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()

Problem with a After a DataSet has been Filled, make sure to call DataSet.Clear before
DataSet? calling DataSet.Fill() again
Iterating through a Assuming DataSet.Fill has been previously called.
DataSet Remember a DataSet looks and acts like a table(or set of tables,
relationships, etc.) but is disconnected from the original datasource. So
you can iterate through it to as you wish.

‘ Get the first table in the DataSet

Dim dataTable as DataTable = dataSet.Tables(0)
Dim recordNumber As Integer

For recordNumber = 0 to dataTable.Rows.Count

Try
‘ indexing is 0 based in dataTable.Rows(rowNumber)(columnNumber)
Emplname = Convert.ToString(dataTable.Rows(0)(0))
Next

Iterating through a A DataSet was filled from a datasource and the table in the DataSet was
DataTable and displayed in a DataGridView for viewing and updating. The following code
updating datasource updates the datasource when a change is found in the table
with changes
Private Sub btnUpdate_Click(ByVal sender As
System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
btnUpdate.Click
Dim row As System.Data.DataRow
Dim i As Integer
Try
dbUpdateCommand = New
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand("update employees set
name = ? where emplid = ?")
dbConnection = getdbConnection()
dbConnection.Open()
dbUpdateCommand.Connection = dbConnection
For i = 0 To table.Rows.Count - 1
row = table.Rows(i)
If (row.RowState =
DataRowState.Modified) Then
dbUpdateCommand.Parameters.Add(New
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbParameter("name",
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbType.Char, 30))
dbUpdateCommand.Parameters.Add(New

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System.Data.OleDb.OleDbParameter("emplid",
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbType.Char, 11))

dbUpdateCommand.Parameters.Item(0).Value =
row(1).ToString

dbUpdateCommand.Parameters.Item(1).Value =
row(0).ToString
dbUpdateCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()

End If

Next

Catch oleDbException As
System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException
MsgBox("Exception caught." &
oleDbException.ToString)
Finally
dbConnection.Close()
End Try
End Sub
Writing XML from a ‘ The following assumes the Dataset has already been filled.
DataSet
myDataSet.WriteXML(“xmlfilename.xml”)

‘ More often you would write the data using XSLT Transform
‘ Add dataset has been filled with results of 2 queries, emloyees and
dependents.
‘ The tables in the DataSet are joined by emplid
dataSet.Relations.Add("EmpDeps", _
dataSet.Tables("Employees").Columns("EmplId"), _
dataSet.Tables("Dependents").Columns("EmplidID")).Nested = true

Dim xmlDataDocument As XmlDataDocument = New

XmlDataDocument(dataSet)
Dim xslTransform As XslTransform = New
XslTransform.xslTran.Load("transform.xsl")

Dim xmlTextWriter As XmlTextWriter = New XmlTextWriter( _

"xslt_employee_dependents.html", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)

xslTransform.Transform(xmlDataDocument, Nothing, writer)

xmlTextWriter.Close()

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