All Connection Strings Sample

You have the .NET Framework on your local computer and you want to connect to a Microsoft Access database called database1.mdb located in the following folder on your hard disk: c:\database1.mdb. Here are the parameters to create this connection string:

Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=c:\database1.mdb;

OLE DB Provider for DB2 (from Microsoft)

For TCP/IP connections
oConn.Open = "Provider=DB2OLEDB;" & _
"Network Transport Library=TCPIP;" & _
"Network Address=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;" & _
"Initial Catalog=MyCatalog;" & _
"Package Collection=MyPackageCollection;" & _
"Default Schema=MySchema;" & _
"User ID=MyUsername;" & _
"Password=MyPassword"
For APPC connections

oConn.Open = "Provider=DB2OLEDB;" & _
"APPC Local LU Alias=MyLocalLUAlias;" & _
"APPC Remote LU Alias=MyRemoteLUAlias;" & _
"Initial Catalog=MyCatalog;" & _
"Package Collection=MyPackageCollection;" & _
"Default Schema=MySchema;" & _
"User ID=MyUsername;" & _
"Password=MyPassword"

ODBC Driver for Excel

oConn.Open "Driver={Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls)};" & _
"DriverId=790;" & _
"Dbq=c:\somepath\mySpreadsheet.xls;" & _
"DefaultDir=c:\somepath"

ODBC Driver for MySQL (via MyODBC)
To connect to a local database (using MyODBC Driver)


oConn.Open "Driver={mySQL};" & _
"Server=MyServerName;" & _
"Option=16834;" & _
"Database=mydb"

To connect to a remote database


oConn.Open "Driver={mySQL};" & _
"Server=db1.database.com;" & _
"Port=3306;" & _
"Option=131072;" & _
"Stmt=;" & _
"Database=mydb;" & _
"Uid=myUsername;" & _
"Pwd=myPassword"

To connect to a local database (using MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver)

oConn.Open "DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};" & _
"Server=myServerName;" & _
"Port=3306;" & _
"Option=16384;" & _
"Stmt=;" & _
"Database=mydatabaseName;" & _
"Uid=myUsername;" & _
"Pwd=myPassword"
Or
oConn.Open "DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};" & _
"SERVER=myServerName;" & _
"DATABASE=myDatabaseName;" & _
"USER=myUsername;" & _
"PASSWORD=myPassword;"