MDAC 2.5 SDK - ODBC Desktop Database Drivers
The SQLConfigDataSource function that is used to add, modify, or delete a data source dynamically uses the following keywords.
| Keyword | Description |
| CHARACTERSET | For the Text driver, OEM or ANSI. |
| COLNAMEHEADER | For the Text driver, indicates whether the first record of data will specify the column names. Either TRUE or FALSE. |
| DEFAULTDIR | The path specification to the directory. |
| DESCRIPTION | A description of the data in the data source.
This sets the same option as Description in the setup dialog box. |
| DRIVER | The path specification to the driver DLL. |
| DRIVERID | An integer ID for the driver. 27 (Text) |
| EXTENSIONS | Lists the file name extensions of the Text files on the data source.
This sets the same option as Extensions List in the setup dialog box. |
| FIL | File type Text |
| FILETYPE | File type for the Text driver (Text). |
| FORMAT | For the Text driver, can be FIXEDLENGTH, TABDELIMITED, CSVDELIMITED (by a comma), or DELIMITED() (by the special character specified in the parentheses). The special character is one character in length and can be in character, decimal, or hexadecimal format. |
| MAXSCANROWS | The number of rows to be scanned when setting a column's data type based upon existing data.
For the Text driver, you can enter a number from 1 to 32767 for the number of rows to scan; however, the value will always default to 25. (A number outside the limit will return an error.) This sets the same option as Rows to Scan in the setup dialog box. |
| READONLY | TRUE to make file read-only; FALSE to make file not read-only.
This sets the same option as Read Only in the setup dialog box. |