Introduction

The Easy Database command set is a library included with the Emergence BASIC development environment. Allowing connection to any database format with an ODBC driver, the command set provides a robust solution for enabling SQL access to any application.

Main Features

- Supports accessing a database directly or by using a system DSN.

- Integrates with all Emergence BASIC variable types.

- Execute SQL statements directly or prepared.

- Easy handling of date, time and timestamp fields.

- Supports dynamic column and parameter binding.

- Can use the ODBC API directly with provided Emergence BASIC include files.

- Quickly iterate column, table and driver names with built in schema commands.

- Intuitive error handling.

- Create Microsoft Access compatible databases with one easy command.

Minimum Requirements

- Emergence BASIC 1.0 or greater

- ODBC 3.0 or greater installed. For Windows 2000 and XP it is already included on the system. For Windows 95, 98 and ME you can download the latest Microsoft Data Access Components from http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/Default.aspx.  ODBC is also included with Microsoft Office.