Visual Basic Database Tutorials

Most business applications interface with databases to store and retrieve information. Visual Basic is one of the easiest languages to use for database programming. Use these tutorials to learn how you can leverage VB6 in your database programs.

  • When creating complex database applications in Visual Basic it is very helpful if you use a standard naming convention for your database objects. This might seem trivial but in the long run will save you development time down the road.
  • Microsoft Access allows you to create, retrieve, and manipulate data using the SQL language. This tutorial explains all the main ways you will want to use this SQL language within your Visual Basic application or other programs.
  • Microsoft Access is a great database application that is easy to interface into from within Visual Basic. A key thing you might want to learn is how to implement the proper security for your database.
  • Microsoft Access is a very useful and effective database application. It uses the Microsoft JET database back end and your Visual Basic applications can easily interact with it.
  • Microsoft has a great database back end called JET. It is most known because the program called Microsoft Access uses it. You can also use this same database in your Visual Basic applications. This VB6 tutorial explains how.
  • Optimize, Optimize, Optimize! This is how you can create the best, fastest, most user friendly apps. In this tutorial you learn what the optimum way to do database development is.
  • As you begin to program more advanced programs that store data in databases you will need to understand how to layout the database in the most efficient way. This will allow you to create Visual Basic applications that run as quickly as possible.
  • Database development is very confusing if you don't understand how databases work and what the heck you are supposed to do with them. This article teaches you exactly what you need to know to get started with databases.
  • We can interface with Oracle databases very easily from within Visual Basic. However, it is slightly different from how we normally use ADO with a SQL database. This tutorial shows you how to still use ADO but in a way that it will work with and Oracle back end.
  • Control Break concepts allow you to break apart and display fields from a sorted sequential file. In this Visual Basic tutorial you learn how this can be used to generate your own reports from a database or your own file format. This is especially useful if you don't want to use some other report generator (like Crystal reports).
  • Learn how to use ADO along with stored procedures in this VB6 tutorial. It shows examples using an access database, SQL database, and oracle database.
  • This demonstrates how you can use RDO (remote data objects) in Visual Basic to access a database.
  • Learn how to use Crystal Reports to display a nice report from your database in.
  • This demonstrates a full working application using nothing but DAO code (no data control) this gives you the advantage of having full control over everything.
  • See examples of developing database applications using the data control that ships with Visual Basic 6.
  • This explains in great depth how the SQL language works. It has many examples and uses access databases to demonstrate the SQL syntax.
  • See how to create a program that reads data using ADO and displays it in a nice ListView control in this VB6 tutorial.
  • This VB6 tutorial explains how to access a database using ADO in. It uses two different access databases for the backend.