Listing 4: Accessing a MySQL Database

' Declare connection and connection string variables
Dim conMySQL, csMySQL

' 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 conMySQL = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")

' Define connection string
csMySQL = "Provider=msdasql;DSN=MySQL_AW;"

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

' Define and set the command text
ctContacts = "SELECT FirstName, LastName FROM Contacts LIMIT 10"
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\MySQLContacts.xml", adPersistXML

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

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

Set csMySQL = Nothing
Set cmdContacts = Nothing
Set ctContacts = Nothing
Set rsContacts = Nothing