Visual FoxPro is a programming language created in 1995.
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Visual FoxPro is a discontinued data-centric, object-oriented, procedural, programming language produced by Microsoft. It was derived from FoxPro (originally known as FoxBASE) which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984. It contained the fastest PC-based database engine available at the time. Read more on Wikipedia...
PRIVATE cAuthorID, cAuthorName && Private variables supplant any previous global or private variable of the same name
LOCAL nHnd, nResult && Local variables are visible only here
* Connect to an ODBC data source
nHnd = SQLCONNECT ("ODBCDSN", "user", "pwd")
* Enter a loop so we can exit to the close connection code if there's an error
DO WHILE .T.
* Execute a SQL command
nResult = SQLEXEC (nHnd, "USE master")
IF nResult < 0
MESSAGEBOX ("MASTER database does not exist!")
EXIT && To close the connection
ENDIF
* Retrieve data from the remote server and stores it in a local data cursor
nResult = SQLEXEC (nHnd, "SELECT * FROM authors", "QAUTHORS")
IF nResult < 0
MESSAGEBOX ("Unable to execute remote SQL SELECT command!")
EXIT && To close the connection
ENDIF
* Update a record in a remote table using parameters
cAuthorID = "1001"
cAuthorName = "New name"
nResult = SQLEXEC (nHnd, "UPDATE authors SET auth_name = ?cAuthorName WHERE auth_id = ?cAuthorID")
IF nResult < 0
MESSAGEBOX ("Unable to execute remote SQL UPDATE command!")
EXIT && To close the connection
ENDIF
* If we get here, we have retrieved everything successfully
EXIT && Exit unconditionally
ENDDO
* Close the connection
SQLDISCONNECT(nHnd)