Where do i start? [modified]
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Hey everybody :-D Ok so here i am, programming a bit for 2 years now (VB.Net 2003). And now i got a lot of data, like 30000 items with many properties and stuff. From all those i want to select only a couple based on those properties and then do stuff with it. So i was thinking about a database. But were do start? I was reading some tutorial and they started with a connection string, but how do i know which connection i have? Do i have to install something? Database stuff is a huge black hole in my head, so any help would be welcome :)
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Hey everybody :-D Ok so here i am, programming a bit for 2 years now (VB.Net 2003). And now i got a lot of data, like 30000 items with many properties and stuff. From all those i want to select only a couple based on those properties and then do stuff with it. So i was thinking about a database. But were do start? I was reading some tutorial and they started with a connection string, but how do i know which connection i have? Do i have to install something? Database stuff is a huge black hole in my head, so any help would be welcome :)
"..Commit yourself to quality from day one..it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.." -- Mark McCormick
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[Marc] wrote:
Do i have to install something?
Yes, you need to install a database. You might also wan't to get a book on ADO.NET to help you with this "stuff"
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Hey everybody :-D Ok so here i am, programming a bit for 2 years now (VB.Net 2003). And now i got a lot of data, like 30000 items with many properties and stuff. From all those i want to select only a couple based on those properties and then do stuff with it. So i was thinking about a database. But were do start? I was reading some tutorial and they started with a connection string, but how do i know which connection i have? Do i have to install something? Database stuff is a huge black hole in my head, so any help would be welcome :)
"..Commit yourself to quality from day one..it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.." -- Mark McCormick
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Some of these are good: http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/#Data+Access[^] --EricDV Sig--------- Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. - Laurence J. Peters