Database Access Using UDL Files: ASP Alliance

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Database Access Using UDL Files

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Published: 14 Aug 2001

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Abstract
UDL files provide a simple and graphical way to set up connections to almost any ODBC-compliant database, and this article shows you how to create them.

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Database access using UDL

Published on 08/14/01

Introduction

UDL is a rather old way of accessing a database, but it still works and is another way for the beginner to get access to the database that he is using. The samples are for Classic ASP, but the concept of UDL files is the same for .NET data access.

U..D...What?

UDL is a plain text file with a connection string, just like you've been using (assuming that you use DRIVER={DRIVER];DBQ=[DBQ];PQD=[Password] ), and the great part is that it doesn't take much to set it up. I'm just going to go over the basics, but there isn't much more to it really.

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