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Owning Palette: Database VIs and Function

Installed With: Database Connectivity Toolkit

Opens a database connection using the connection information path and returns a connection reference. If prompt? is set to TRUE, LabVIEW displays a dialog box to set up the connection. Wire data to the connection information input to determine the polymorphic instance to use or manually select the instance.

Use the pull-down menu to select an instance of this VI.

Select an instance DB Tools Open Connec (Path)DB Tools Open Connec (String)

DB Tools Open Connec (Path)

	userID specifies the user ID needed to access the database. You might not need to specify a userID.
	connection information is the absolute path of the file that stores the connection information. For a Microsoft Data Link file, this path must have a .udl extension. A File DSN must have a .dsn extension.
	prompt? If TRUE, LabVIEW prompts you to determine connection parameters. Using this input is an alternative to using a connection string. If prompt? is TRUE, LabVIEW ignores the connection string and uses the prompt instead.
	connection timeout determines the length of time (in seconds) to wait while attempting to make a connection to a database before quitting and returning an error. The default is 15. Setting this value to 0 instructs the VI to wait indefinitely.
	error in describes error conditions that occur before this VI or function runs. The default is no error. If an error occurred before this VI or function runs, the VI or function passes the error in value to error out. This VI or function runs normally only if no error occurred before this VI or function runs. If an error occurs while this VI or function runs, it runs normally and sets its own error status in error out. Use the Simple Error Handler or General Error Handler VIs to display the description of the error code. Use exception control to treat what is normally an error as no error or to treat a warning as an error. Use error in and error out to check errors and to specify execution order by wiring error out from one node to error in of the next node. status is TRUE (X) if an error occurred before this VI or function ran or FALSE (checkmark) to indicate a warning or that no error occurred before this VI or function ran. The default is FALSE. code is the error or warning code. The default is 0. If status is TRUE, code is a nonzero error code. If status is FALSE, code is 0 or a warning code. source specifies the origin of the error or warning and is, in most cases, the name of the VI or function that produced the error or warning. The default is an empty string.
	password specifies the password required to access the database for security purposes. You might not need to specify a password.
	connection reference returns a reference to an ADO Connection object.
	error out contains error information. If error in indicates that an error occurred before this VI or function ran, error out contains the same error information. Otherwise, it describes the error status that this VI or function produces. Right-click the error out front panel indicator and select Explain Error from the shortcut menu for more information about the error. status is TRUE (X) if an error occurred or FALSE (checkmark) to indicate a warning or that no error occurred. code is the error or warning code. If status is TRUE, code is a nonzero error code. If status is FALSE, code is 0 or a warning code. source describes the origin of the error or warning and is, in most cases, the name of the VI or function that produced the error or warning.

DB Tools Open Connec (String)

	userID specifies the user ID needed to access the database. You might not need to specify a userID.
	connection information specifies the connection string to use to connect to the database. For User and System ODBC Data Sources, provide the name of the data source as configured in the Windows ODBC Administrator. You also can specify a path to a UDL or DSN file by prefixing the path with file name= or filedsn=, respectively.
	prompt? If TRUE, LabVIEW prompts you to determine connection parameters. Using this input is an alternative to using a connection string. If prompt? is TRUE, LabVIEW ignores the connection string and uses the prompt instead.
	connection timeout determines the length of time (in seconds) to wait while attempting to make a connection to a database before quitting and returning an error. The default is 15. Setting this value to 0 instructs the VI to wait indefinitely.
	error in describes error conditions that occur before this VI or function runs. The default is no error. If an error occurred before this VI or function runs, the VI or function passes the error in value to error out. This VI or function runs normally only if no error occurred before this VI or function runs. If an error occurs while this VI or function runs, it runs normally and sets its own error status in error out. Use the Simple Error Handler or General Error Handler VIs to display the description of the error code. Use exception control to treat what is normally an error as no error or to treat a warning as an error. Use error in and error out to check errors and to specify execution order by wiring error out from one node to error in of the next node. status is TRUE (X) if an error occurred before this VI or function ran or FALSE (checkmark) to indicate a warning or that no error occurred before this VI or function ran. The default is FALSE. code is the error or warning code. The default is 0. If status is TRUE, code is a nonzero error code. If status is FALSE, code is 0 or a warning code. source specifies the origin of the error or warning and is, in most cases, the name of the VI or function that produced the error or warning. The default is an empty string.
	password specifies the password required to access the database for security purposes. You might not need to specify a password.
	connection reference returns a reference to an ADO Connection object.
	error out contains error information. If error in indicates that an error occurred before this VI or function ran, error out contains the same error information. Otherwise, it describes the error status that this VI or function produces. Right-click the error out front panel indicator and select Explain Error from the shortcut menu for more information about the error. status is TRUE (X) if an error occurred or FALSE (checkmark) to indicate a warning or that no error occurred. code is the error or warning code. If status is TRUE, code is a nonzero error code. If status is FALSE, code is 0 or a warning code. source describes the origin of the error or warning and is, in most cases, the name of the VI or function that produced the error or warning.