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NewDataSource Method
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Returns an empty datasource object for a given data store brand name.

Server.NewDataSource( cServerBrandName )

Return Values

Object

Parameters

cServerBrandName
	Specifies the data store brand name for the datasource object.

Remarks

The NewDataSource method receives a string parameter with the brand name of the server in order to instantiate a datasource object from the correct fdoDatasource subclass. A case insensitive search is done over the brand name to detect this values:

SubString	fdoDataSource subclass
"fox"	fdoDataSource_VisualFoxPro
"sqlserver"	fdoDataSource_MsSQLServer
"oracle"	fdoDataSource_Oracle
"mysql"	fdoDataSource_MySQL
"postgre"	fdoDataSource_PostgreSQL
"sybase"	fdoDataSource_SybaseASE
"db2"	fdoDataSource_IBMDB2
"fire"	fdoDataSource_FireBird

If none of the substrings values exposed in the previous table can be located on the brand name, the method returns the .NULL. value.

If a valid data store brand name is passed, this method instantiates and returns a pointer to an empty datasource object from the fdoDataSource subclass corresponding to the requested data store.

Example

oDS=oServer.NewDatasource("Ms SqlServer")

oDS.Database_Name="MyDatabase"
oDS.ODBC_SRV="192.168.0.1"
oDS.ODBC_UID="sa"
oDS.ODBC_PWD=cPassword

See Also

DataSource class | Server.SetDefaultDataSource method

Applies to: Server object

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