ADO: ActiveX Data Objects

Name

Command.Dialect Property — (Version 2.6)

Synopsis

Command.Dialect = GUID
                  

The Dialect property is used with the CommandText and the CommandStream properties to indicate the data provider-specific syntax of the Command’s source.

Datatype

String

Description

The default value for the Dialect property is {C8B521FB-5CF3-11CE-ADE5-00AA0044773D}, which indicates to ADO that the provider will attempt to figure out how to interpret the Command’s source specified in either the CommandStream or the CommandText property.

Note

You must check your data provider’s documentation to see what the valid values of the Dialect property must be specified as, depending upon the value in the CommandStream or CommandText properties.

See Also

Command.CommandStream Property, Command.CommandText Property