ADO is an object-oriented programming interface. In ADO, the Connection object represents a unique session with a data source.
You can use the following Connection object features to initiate a connection:
The Provider property that holds the name of the provider. If you do not supply a Provider name, ADO uses the MSDASQL provider.
The ConnectionString property that holds a connection string. This property holds a Sybase IQ connection string, which is used in just the same way as the ODBC driver. You can supply ODBC data source names, or explicit UserID, Password, DatabaseName, and other parameters, just as in other connection strings.
For a list of connection parameters, see “Connection parameters”.
The Open method initiates a connection.
For more information about ADO, including sample code for connecting with a database, see SQL Anywhere Server – Programming.
To run examples from SQL Anywhere Server – Programming,
substitute the data source “Sybase IQ Demo” and
the samples directory %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\All Users\SybaseIQ\samples\SQLAnywhere\VBSampler\vbsampler.sln.
Installing Sybase IQ registers appropriate drivers automatically,
but you must register both the 32-bit and the 64-bit driver to develop
and deploy applications based on the OLE DB on a 64-bit Windows
machine. Specify the full path to the dboledb11.dll and dboledba11.dll when
running regsvr32.
