ADO Type Property

Definition and Usage

The Type property can set or return a DataTypeEnum Value, which can indicate the type of Parameter, Field, or Property object.

Object Description of Type object
Parameter For Parameter objects, the Type property has read/write access.
Field For new Field objects appended to the Fields collection of the Record, Type is read/write only when the Value property of the Field has been specified and the data provider has successfully added the new Field by calling the Update method of the Fields collection.
Property For Property objects, the Type property is read-only.

Syntax

objectname.Type

Instance

For Field object:

<%
set conn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
conn.Provider="Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"
conn.Open "c:/webdata/northwind.mdb"
set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
rs.open "Select * from orders", conn
response.write(rs.Fields(0).Type)
rs.Close
conn.close
%>

For Parameter object:

<%
set comm=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
set para=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Parameter")
para.Type=adVarChar
para.Size=25
para.Direction=adParamInput
para.Value=varfname
comm.Parameters.Append para
%>

For Property object:

<%
set conn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
conn.Provider="Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"
conn.Open "c:/webdata/northwind.mdb"
set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
rs.open "Select * from orders", conn
set prop=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Property")
Display the property attributes of the Orders Table
for each prop in rs.Properties
  response.write("Attr:" & prop.Attributes & "<br />")
  response.write("Name:" & prop.Name & "<br />")
  response.write("Value:" & prop.Value & "<br />")
  response.write("Type:" & prop.Type & "<br />")
next
rs.close
conn.close
set rs=nothing
set conn=nothing
%>