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Splash
04-24-2010, 09:35 AM
Hi
I am trying to use oledb and connect to my access db.. It works fine on my local machine, as my database location can be hard coded..

Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\mydatabase.mdb;

Where as on discountasp.net site
my database is under root folder in

Root
_Datadase
myDatabase.mdb

In that case how do I specify it?

<a:connectionstring>
Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=_database\mydatabase.mdb
</a:connectionstring>

doesn't work.

I also tried
Data Source= server.map(mydatabase.mdb)


Thanks
Splash

wisemx
04-24-2010, 12:43 PM
Hi,
This is the way I used to create a conn in classic ASP for the _database folders here:

strConn = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & Server.MapPath("/_database/mydatabase.mdb")
Set objConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
objConn.open strConn