MySQL and ADO - hopeless? - mysql

Question

Tearing hair out and googling all weekend. I am frantically converting an ASP site to use MySQL. Am I correct in thinking that I would be barking up the wrong tree to try to use recordset commands to get data in and out of MySQL via ODBC and should only use MySQL procedures? If so I face a nightmare, I think as have then to work out how to capture the returned values.
Sorry if this sounds hideously ignorant, but no idea where to turn.
DETAILS:
Set SConn = createobject("ADODB.Connection")
conn.open = "DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 5.1 Driver};"_
& "SERVER=" & SQLServer & ";"_
& "DATABASE=" & SQLDbase & ";"_
& "UID=" & SQLUser & ";PWD=" & SQLPW & "; OPTION=35;"
SQL = "SELECT tblNodes.SingleSiteChildID "
SQL = SQL & "FROM tblNodes "
SQL = SQL & "WHERE (((tblNodes.NodeID)=" & m_lngNodeID & "));"
set RS=server.CreateObject("adodb.Recordset")
RS.CursorType = 1
RS.LockType = 2
RS.Open SQL, conn
With RS
If not .Fields("SingleSiteChildID") >0 or isnull(.Fields("SingleSiteChildID")) then
If m_lngChildCount>0 then
.Fields("SingleSiteChildID")=0
m_lngSingleSiteChildID=0
Else
.Fields("SingleSiteChildID")=null
m_lngSingleSiteChildID=null
End if
.UPDATE
End if
END WITH
RS.Close
Set RS = Nothing
Set conn = Nothing
End Sub

Answer 1

You can use Recordset and Command objects in exactly the same way you are use other databases at the moment.
If you use DSNs, all you need to do is create a system DSN to the MySQL DB, although a DSN-less connection is a better way of doing it.
Head to the MySQL site to install the ODBC drivers then your connection string will look something like this:
Driver={MySQL ODBC 5.1 Driver}; Server=localhost; uid=user_name; pwd=password; database=db_name; option=67108899; port=3306;
Do a quick Google to check that the options specified there are correct for you, I have ripped this from a working Classic ASP site that uses MySQL.
Simply switching the connection string should allow you to migrate very simply to a new DB type. Do check that all your SQL commands conform to MySQL standards, and do not use words specific to MSSQL or Access, e.g. TOP is MS only, use LIMIT for MySQL.