Re: Step 1 with Visual Basic

Richard Broersma wrote:

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Gary <sql@4myad.tv> wrote:
  

1.  I'm clicking on Reply.  Is this only going to you and if so should I be
doing something different?
    

Ya.  Reply-All is for the benifit of the whole PostgreSQL Community.
This way others listening in can benifit from the discussion and
people more experienced or smarter that I can chime in to correct my
mis-information :o) .  Also the answer is posted to the PostgreSQL

Archieves.  This way the answers are stored for others to research
later.

2. I know the username and password of the database, nothing else.  When I
first installed the application, I have a vague memory of doing something
and getting "dos looking" window with a prompt.  I believe I had to enter /q

to exit.  I don't remember what I did to get that far.
    

these should fill in the missing details
http://www.connectionstrings.com/?carrier=postgresql about connection strings
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms807027.aspx about connection.open

http://support.sas.com/documentation/tools/oledb/rr_sqliomshare.htm
 

3. I understand about 50% of your example.  I need to back up to the
beginning.  Where do I look for "SQL for Dummies?"
  
    

Well, I think there are too many SQL dummies out there, so I would
recommend this book instead ;) :
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/706077/description#description
 

Sorry to be such a pest.  If I could understand these documents I probably wouldn't have to read them.  I've been zipping around the net reading docs but nowhere do they start at the beginning.

I've rediscovered how to start the interactive terminal and even listed the commands.  Might as well be in Chinese.

I've searched and Googled but I don't know the jargon and can't get close to the right topic.

Seems like step 1 might be to determine the names of the data fields in the database. (tables & ?).  How do I do that?

Is there a newsgroup with "training wheels"?