>Hi All,
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>I want to develop my skills in Visual Basic Programming. I am very much interested to develop Business Application and Activex Controls(mainly editors).
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>I just request you all to help me out with starting up with my plan like to select better Database facility for Visual Basic (and also Database Connectivity Issues)
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>Once I get started I may get into more deeper into this forum.
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>Regards,
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>Thanks
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>Anna

FWIW:

If you are going to be working with a relatively small number of records (<200,000), I suggest Access 97. Its query builder is very easy to use and, if done right, can be fast.

For medium size databases (100,000 - 10 million records), you could use Visual Foxpro as your database engine via ODBC.

You will find that, while ODBC is easy to use, pass-through queries will be much faster when working with client/server apps. These will include Oracle, SQL-Server, Sybase, etc.

Good luck in your endeavors!

You may want to contact a friend of mine, Suresh Meduri, at sureshm@rocketmail.com. He is an Oracle developer.

- Gerry / Hagerstown, MD, USA