Financial Information Management Putting VB & SQL To Work Stefano Grazioli

Critical Thinking  Still going strong  VPN, then “cmd”, then runas /user:mcintire\MyUserName "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"  Easy meter

Financial Information Management Accessing Enterprise Data Using Excel & ADO

Where is my Data? In a DBMS on the network In memory DATASET fastfast Speedslowbestfast Depends on bandwidth VolumemediumSmall/mediummediumVery large Accesseasy difficultmedium Backupmediumpoorn/aexcellent SecuritypoorPoor/mediumexcellentgood In a file slowslow Your local machine Server slowslow

ADO.NET  ActiveX Data Object  MS Technology to manage enterprise data  Use ADO to run SQL queries on remote servers, collect the results, and present them to the user.

Database Plumbing Standard parts, put together in standard ways are called architectures Standard parts are called ‘objects’

Software Objects

 An object is a bundle of data and ‘methods’  Object Classes and Object Instances Class = code to build an instance Instance = physical item running on your machine  Instances are built with the keyword new Dim myDeskClock As DeskClock = new DeskClock() Name, a variable Class name (type) keyword Method that creates the deskclock

ADO architecture Remote DataBase (financial data) Remote DataBase (financial data) Client (your program on your machine) SQL Query string Connection string SqlConnection SqlAdapter ListObject DataSet DataTable s DataRow s DB Server SqlCommand On your Spreadsheet

Financial Information Management DEMO

Financial Information Management WINIT What Is New In Technology?

You do the talking  Name, Major  Learning objectives  Things you like about the class  Things that can be improved  Attitude towards the Tournament

Financial Information Management Homework Using ADO to Retrieve Financial Data

 Make sure that you understand the ADO architecture diagram before coding.