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DaoWorkspace:CreateDatabase() Method |
  
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DaoWorkspace:CreateDatabase() Method |
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Purpose
Creates a new database
Parameters
| cName | A string up to 255 characters long that is the name of the database file that you're creating. It can be the full path and file name, such as "C:\db1.mdb". If you don't supply a file name extension, .mdb is appended. |
| cDstConnect | A pointer to a string that specifies various connection information, including the collating order for text strings and a password. You can create a password for the new Database object by concatenating the password string (starting with ";pwd=") with a constant, for example: |
dbLangSpanish & ";pwd=Password"
If you want to use the default collating order, but specify a password, simply enter a password string for this argument:
";pwd=Password"
| lOptions | (Optional) A constant or combination of constants that indicates one or more options. See Settings for details |
Returns
A Database Object
Settings
You can concatenate one of the following constants in the pstrConnect argument to specify the CollatingOrder for string comparisons of text in the database.
Constant Sort order
dbSortGeneral General (English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and Modern Spanish)
dbSortArabic Arabic
dbSortChineseSimplified Simplified Chinese
dbSortChineseTraditional Traditional Chinese
dbSortCyrillic Russian
dbSortCzech Czech
dbSortDutch Dutch
dbSortGreek Greek
dbSortHebrew hebrew
dbSortHungarian Hungarian
dbSortIcelandic Icelandic
dbSortJapanese Japanese
dbSortKorean Korean
dbSortNeutral Neutral
dbSortNorwDan Norwegian or Danish
dbSortPDXIntl Paradox International
dbSortPDXNor Paradox Norwegian or Danish
dbSortPDXSwe Paradox Swedish or Finnish
dbSortPolish Polish
dbSortSlovenian Slovenian
dbSortSpanish Spanish
dbSortSwedFin Swedish or Finnish
dbSortThai Thai
dbSortTurkish Turkish
dbSortUndefined Undefined or unknown
You can use one or more of the following constants in the lOptions argument to specify which version the data format should have and whether or not to encrypt the database
| Constant | Description |
| dbEncrypt | Creates an encrypted database. |
| DbVersion10 | Creates a database that uses the Microsoft Jet database engine version 1.0 file format. |
| DbVersion11 | Creates a database that uses the Microsoft Jet database engine version 1.1 file format. |
| DbVersion20 | Creates a database that uses the Microsoft Jet database engine version 2.0 file format. |
| DbVersion30 | (Default) Creates a database that uses the Microsoft Jet database engine version 3.0 file format (compatible with version 3.5). |
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