Listing 2: Accessing a Microsoft Access Database

' Declare connection and connection string variables
Dim conAccess, csAccess

' Declare command and command text variables
Dim cmdContacts, ctContacts

' Declare recordset variable
Dim rsContacts

' Declare argument constants
Const adPersistXML = 1
Const adStateOpen = 1

' Create Connection object
Set conAccess = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")

' Define connection string
csAccess = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _
  "Data Source=C:\Info\Contacts.mdb;"

' Open connection    
conAccess.Open csAccess
        
' Create Command object and set the connection
Set cmdContacts = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Set cmdContacts.ActiveConnection = conAccess

' Define and set the command text
ctContacts = "SELECT TOP 10 FirstName, LastName FROM Contacts"
cmdContacts.CommandText = ctContacts

' Create and populate recordset object
Set rsContacts = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
rsContacts.Open cmdContacts

' Save data to XML file
rsContacts.Save "C:\Info\AccessContacts.xml", adPersistXML

' Clean up
If rsContacts.State = adStateOpen then
  rsContacts.Close
End If

If conAccess.State = adStateOpen then
  conAccess.Close
End If

Set conAccess = Nothing
Set csAccess = Nothing
Set cmdContacts = Nothing
Set ctContacts = Nothing
Set rsContacts = Nothing