Data Linker Xtra v1.2 for Windows		November.11.2003

Data Linker Xtra provides Director developers the power and ease of integrating databases into their products. Data Linker have a complete set of features that helps developers create database applications quickly and painlessly. Data Linker can connect to many data sources including Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, dBASE, Oracle and many others.

Developers will enjoy the syntax that allows them to reuse their existing code for new projects, even when you choose a new database technology. In addition, there's no need to learn about database programming techniques such as opening a recordset, setting cursor types, or obtaining schema information, because everything is encapsulated for the lingo developer.

Use Data Linker Xtra to::

• Use SQL to query and/or update database records from lingo
• Use the same methods to retrieve data from any ODBC compliant data provider
• Obtain a list of tables/spreadsheets
• Obtain a list of fields names
• Create new records in your existing data file
• Read field attributes
• Obtain connection properties
• Obtain the record count before querying the actual data

Data Linker uses Microsoft ADO technology so you can be sure that Data Linker will work on all windows platforms. By integrating with Director, all of the difficult tasks of database programming is hidden to the director developer. Directors developers can read an entire data file with as little as 3 lines of lingo call.

xtraDL = xtra("dataLinker").new()
xtraDL.openConnection("Driver={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};Server=192.168.1.1;Database=mysql;Option=4;User=root;Password=;")
xtraDL.getTableData("myTable")
(example script to retrieve data from a mySQL database on a web server)

(NEW) Some of the changes since version 1.2. For a full list, please review the documentation.

1. Errors from the data provider is now accessible with the method getDetailedError( ). This is useful when errors such as SQL string parsing error or data connection string is parsed incorrectly. Developers can now
2. Supports SQL string with more than 256 characters. A bug in version 1.1 that truncated all string parameters for the first 256 characters passed in from lingo into Data Linker. It has now been resolved
3. All void and NULL values are now returned back into lingo as string value "*NULL*".
4. Removed existing cumbersome licensing gimmicks.