CreateDatabase Method

           

Creates a new Database object, saves the database to disk, and returns an opened Database object (Microsoft Jet workspaces only).

Syntax

Set database = workspace.CreateDatabase (name, locale, options)

The CreateDatabase method syntax has these parts.

Part	Description
database	An object variable that represents the Database object you want to create.
workspace	An object variable that represents the existing Workspace object that will contain the database. If you omit workspace, CreateDatabase uses the default Workspace.
name	A String up to 255 characters long that is the name of the database file that you're creating. It can be the full path and file name, such as "C:\db1.mdb". If you don't supply a file name extension, .mdb is appended. If your network supports it, you can also specify a network path, such as "\\server1\share1\dir1\db1". You can only create .mdb database files with this method.
locale	A string expression that specifies a collating order for creating the database, as specified in Settings. You must supply this argument or an error occurs.
	You can also create a password for the new Database object by concatenating the password string (starting with ";pwd=") with a constant in the locale argument, like this:
	dbLangSpanish & ";pwd=NewPassword"
	If you want to use the default locale, but specify a password, simply enter a password string for the locale argument:
	";pwd=NewPassword"
options	Optional. A constant or combination of constants that indicates one or more options, as specified in Settings. You can combine options by summing the corresponding constants.

Settings

You can use one of the following constants for the locale argument to specify the CollatingOrder property of text for string comparisons.

Constant	Collating order
dbLangGeneral	English, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Modern Spanish
dbLangArabic	Arabic
dbLangChineseSimplified	Simplified Chinese
dbLangChineseTraditional	Traditional Chinese
dbLangCyrillic	Russian
dbLangCzech	Czech
dbLangDutch	Dutch
dbLangGreek	Greek
dbLangHebrew	Hebrew
dbLangHungarian	Hungarian
dbLangIcelandic	Icelandic
dbLangJapanese	Japanese
dbLangKorean	Korean
dbLangNordic	Nordic languages (Microsoft Jet database engine version 1.0 only)
dbLangNorwDan	Norwegian and Danish
dbLangPolish	Polish
dbLangSlovenian	Slovenian
dbLangSpanish	Traditional Spanish
dbLangSwedFin	Swedish and Finnish
dbLangThai	Thai
dbLangTurkish	Turkish

You can use one or more of the following constants in the options argument to specify which version the data format should have and whether or not to encrypt the database.

Constant	Description
dbEncrypt	Creates an encrypted database.
dbVersion10	Creates a database that uses the Microsoft Jet database engine version 1.0 file format.
dbVersion11	Creates a database that uses the Microsoft Jet database engine version 1.1 file format.
dbVersion20	Creates a database that uses the Microsoft Jet database engine version 2.0 file format.
dbVersion30	(Default) Creates a database that uses the Microsoft Jet database engine version 3.0 file format (compatible with version 3.5).

If you omit the encryption constant, CreateDatabase creates an un-encrypted database. You can specify only one version constant. If you omit a version constant, CreateDatabase creates a database that uses the Microsoft Jet database engine version 3.0 file format.

Remarks

Use the CreateDatabase method to create and open a new, empty database, and return the Database object. You must complete its structure and content by using additional DAO objects. If you want to make a partial or complete copy of an existing database, you can use the CompactDatabase method to make a copy that you can customize.