Mark,
I think all languages are difficult at first especially if you start from the help.
In my experience, the best way to learn a new programming language is to have a precise little problem to solve. Not big projects, not too much complex programs. Just one little everyday problem to be solved (it depends in which field you are interested in). I've always done in that way to learn all the programming languages I know.
Of course you first need to know if the programming language you are trying to learn has at least the basis for the problem you are facing. So if you are interested in DBMS, be sure the language has direct access to the DBMS you need or at least ODBC interaction.
Why so little examples and documentation on ODBC in thinBasic?
2 reasons: time and interest.
We usually develop more what people ask. Why loosing our time in developing and documenting things we do not need and no-one asked for it? As soon as there is some interest in an argument, we are very happy to go deeper in it.
Regarding ODBC documentation, the library we use as wrapper, follows almost 1 to 1 ODBC standards. Writing a documentation on ODBC would require months. So we prefer to reply to single precise requests or problems here in forum when someone needs more info.
Anyhow, at http://www.jose.it-berater.org/odbc/iframe/index.htm you can already find a lot of info.
The few thinBasic examples you can find in \thinBasic\SampleScripts\ODBC\ should be enough to start (open ODBC driver, conenct to a MSACCESS DB, make queries, ..., close)
If you need more info, let me know.
Eros
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