Visual Basic Example Using ODBCLogon

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Sub UsingODBCLOgon()

   ' Dimension the variables.
   Dim chan As Integer
   Dim NumRows
   Dim NumCols

   ' Initiate a DDE channel to Msquery.
   chan = DDEInitiate("MSQuery", "System")

   ' Execute the ODBCLogon command.
   DDEExecute chan, "[ODBCLogon('DSN=NWind',0)]"

   ' Execute a SQL statement.
   DDEExecute chan, "[Open('Select * From Customer')]"

   ' Request the number of rows.
   NumRows = DDERequest(chan, "NumRows")

   ' Request the number of columns.
   NumCols = DDERequest(chan, "NumCols")

   ' Return the data to Sheet1.
   DDEExecute chan, "[Fetch('Excel','Sheet1','R1C1:R" & NumRows(1) & _
      "C" & NumCols(1) & "','All/Headers')]"

   ' Close the DDE channel.
   DDETerminate chan

End Sub