Pure Newbie at Databases, Wanting to make an adress book

[struntz]

Hello!
I am so new to Databases i have no clue wehre to start, i know how to view a database with a datacontrol woo thats hard heh, but what i am wanting to do is make an Address book with VB and i want it to store the information the user enters into an Access Database i have Microsoft office 2000. Can someone give me some code or some example or a good Database Tutorial? that would be really great!
THanks for listening :D

[Paul Warren]

Have a look at this article, which is on this site.

http://www.vb-world.net/databases/dbtutorial/

There's plenty of stuff out there on this subject. You will also find it useful to look through the threads here and see what people are doing and looking at the source code to try and understand it.

Good luck.

[ttingen]

If you installed the DAO help (or it may install it by default, don't remember) that comes with Access you could look at it. It has some good examples on how to access data using DAO. Search the help file in Access for DAO and should give you a DAO Object Model option. That is a good place to start. Or if DAO isn't the route you want to go you can look at the MSDN help for ADO tutorials and sample code.

[parksie]

DAO is easier to understand from a newbie point of view than ADO. There is also copious documentation on it in the VB help files. Which edition of VB do you have?

[BruceG]

If you're a computer book fan, you might find John Connell's "Beginning VB6 Database Programming" useful. Here's a link to the amazon.com reviews for it:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/book-customer-reviews/1861001061/qid=966471934/sr=1-2/002-0051130-0956071