{"id":786,"date":"2011-06-14T20:20:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T01:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wordpress\/?p=786"},"modified":"2021-03-10T20:32:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T01:32:03","slug":"powerbuilder-connect-to-sqlite-version-3-database-odbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/powerbuilder\/powerbuilder-connect-to-sqlite-version-3-database-odbc\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerBuilder – Connect to SQLite version 3 database (ODBC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are interested in doing PowerBuilder development with an SQLite database here is the DSN Less connection string to get you going.<\/p>\n

string ls_dbparm, ls_dbfile, ls_exepath, ls_file[]\n\nls_dbfile = c:\\temp\\sqlite.db3'\n\nIF Fileexists(ls_dbfile) THEN\n\t\/\/ do nothing\nELSE\n\tIF GetFileOpenName('Select Data File',ls_dbfile, ls_file,'db3','SQLite files (*.db3),*.db3') < 1 THEN\n\t\tMessagebox('No Data File Chosen','Application will close')\n\t\tHALT CLOSE\n\tEND IF\nEND IF\n\/\/ SQLite connection\nls_dbparm = "ConnectString='"\n\/\/ Driver installed with SQLite2009 Pro Enterprise Manager\nls_dbparm = ls_dbparm + "DRIVER=SQLite2010 Pro ODBC Driver;" \nls_dbparm = ls_dbparm + "Database=" + ls_dbfile + "'" \nls_dbparm = ls_dbparm + "UID=" + "admin" + ";PWD="\nls_dbparm = ls_dbparm +  "'" \nsqlca.DbParm=ls_dbparm \n\nsqlca.DBMS = "ODBC"\n\nCONNECT USING SQLCA;\nIF (sqlca.sqlcode) <> 0 THEN \n\tMessageBox("Database Log On Error","Failed to Connect to Database" +string(sqlca.sqlcode)+" "+sqlca.DBparm  + sqlca.sqlerrtext)\n  \tHALT CLOSE\nEND IF<\/pre>\n
You can download the database and a pretty good manager application here:
\nSQLite2009 Pro Enterprise Manager (FREE)<\/a><\/p>\n
Yes, yes, I know there are other tools which may ‘kick SQLite to the curb’ but that’s up to you to decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you are interested in doing PowerBuilder development with an SQLite database here is the DSN Less connection string to get you going. string ls_dbparm, ls_dbfile, ls_exepath, ls_file[] ls_dbfile = c:\\temp\\sqlite.db3' IF Fileexists(ls_dbfile) THEN \/\/ do nothing ELSE IF GetFileOpenName('Select Data File',ls_dbfile, ls_file,'db3','SQLite files (*.db3),*.db3') < 1 THEN Messagebox('No Data File Chosen','Application will close') HALT…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,10,51],"tags":[53,52,12,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anvil-of-time.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}