ADO Name Property

The Name property sets or returns a string that contains the name of a Command, Property, Field, or Parameter object.

Object	Description of the Name Property
Command	The Name property has read/write permissions on a Connection object
Property	The Name property has read-only permissions on a Property object
Field	The Name property has read/write permissions when used to create a Recordset, but it has read-only permissions when you open an existing Recordset
Parameter	The Name property has read/write permissions on a Parameter object that is not added to the Parameters Collection, but it has read-only permissions after the object is added to the Collection

Syntax

object.Name

Example - For a Command object

<%
set conn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
conn.Provider="Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"
conn.Open "c:/webdata/northwind.mdb"

set comm=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
comm.Name="xx"
response.write(comm.Name)

conn.close
%>

Example - For a Field object

<%
set conn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
conn.Provider="Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"
conn.Open "c:/webdata/northwind.mdb"

set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
rs.open "Select * from orders", conn

set f=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Field")

'Display the field attributes of the Orders Table
for each f in rs.Fields
 response.write("Attr:" & f.Attributes & " ")
 response.write("Name:" & f.Name & " ")
 response.write("Value:" & f.Value & " ")
next

rs.Close
conn.close
set rs=nothing
set conn=nothing
%>

Example - For a Property object

<%
set conn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
conn.Provider="Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"
conn.Open "c:/webdata/northwind.mdb"

set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
rs.open "Select * from orders", conn

set prop=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Property")

'Display the property attributes of the Orders Table
for each prop in rs.Properties
 response.write("Attr:" & prop.Attributes & " ")
 response.write("Name:" & prop.Name & " ")
 response.write("Value:" & prop.Value & " ")
next

rs.close
conn.close
set rs=nothing
set conn=nothing
%>

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