Posted by Steve on 10/02/07 14:47

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Steve wrote:
>> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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>>> Jim Carlock wrote:
>>>> "RageARC" wrote...
>>>>> using namespace curl;
>>>>> init...
>>>>> exec...
>>>>> close...
>>>> That looks like Visual Basic 3/4/5/6...
>>>>
>>>> Dim db As DAO.Database
>>>> Dim rs As DAO.Recordset
>>>> Dim sSQL As String
>>>>
>>>> sSQL = "Select * From customers;"
>>>> With DAO
>>>> Set db = .OpenDatabase("mydata.mdb")
>>>> Set rs = .OpenRecordset(sSQL)
>>>> End With
>>>>
>>>> '... rest of the code
>>>>
>>>> Except I think it works a little better with the "With" in
>>>> Visual Basic.
>>>>
>>>> What's the advantage of a namespace if you have 5 different
>>>> databases to connect to?
>>>>
>>> Absolutely nothing. Namespaces are for source code separation, not
>>> database selection.
>>
>> jerry, i think he meant the DAO used in the 'with' statement...which is
>> NOT a namespace but an object instance. i believe his code sample above
>> would fail anyway since i don't recall DAO being a static class - static
>> was introduced to vb in vb.net.
>
> OK, that makes sense. Not being familiar with DAO, I wouldn't know (or
> care ;-) ).

dude, all he had to say was 'vb' and i completely lost interest from there.
;^)

what's worse is that he's probably more likely using vb 3/4 since data
access objects were obsoleted in later versions for the alimighty (laughs)
adodb class(es). that would also explain why he has no idea that
dao.interface is not the same as namespace::resource

later.

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