How to: Specify the Location of the Temporary Database by Using OLE DB (Programmatically)

In this topic, you will learn how to set the location and size of the temporary database file when programming an OLE DB application in Visual C++. You can set the location of the temporary database by specifying the DBPROP_SSCE_TEMPFILE_DIRECTORY property when the data source is initialized, or when the ISSCECompact::Compact method is run. You set the database size by specifying the DBPROP_SSCE_TEMPFILE_MAX_SIZE property.

Example

The following example shows how to specify the temporary database directory by specifying the DBPROP_SSCE_TEMPFILE_DIRECTORY property when you call IDBProperties::SetProperties.

// Object declarations
HRESULT          hr              = NOERROR; 
DBPROPSET        dbpropset[2]; 
DBPROP           dbprop[1]; 
DBPROP           sscedbprop[1]; 

// Declare the provider interfaces.
IDBInitialize *  pIDBInitialize  = NULL;
IDBProperties *  pIDBProperties  = NULL;

// Initialize the data source.
hr = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_SQLSERVERCE_3_0, 0, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
    IID_IDBInitialize, (void**) &pIDBInitialize);
if (FAILED(hr))
{
    //Send an error-specific message and do error handling.
    goto Exit;
}

// Initialize property structures
VariantInit(&dbprop[0].vValue);
VariantInit(&sscedbprop[0].vValue);

// Initialize Property with name of database.
dbprop[0].dwPropertyID = DBPROP_INIT_DATASOURCE;
dbprop[0].dwOptions = DBPROPOPTIONS_REQUIRED;
dbprop[0].vValue.vt = VT_BSTR;
dbprop[0].vValue.bstrVal = SysAllocString(L"MyDB.sdf");
if(NULL == dbprop[0].vValue.bstrVal)
{
    hr = E_OUTOFMEMORY;
    goto Exit;
}

// Second property set has one property that contains the provider-specific
// property to specify an alternative temp file directory.
sscedbprop[0].dwPropertyID = DBPROP_SSCE_TEMPFILE_DIRECTORY;
sscedbprop[0].vValue.vt = VT_BSTR;
sscedbprop[0].vValue.bstrVal = SysAllocString(L"\\NewTempDir");
if(NULL == dbprop[0].vValue.bstrVal)
{
    hr = E_OUTOFMEMORY;
    goto Exit;
}

// Initialize property set.
dbpropset[0].guidPropertySet = DBPROPSET_DBINIT;
dbpropset[0].rgProperties = dbprop;
dbpropset[0].cProperties = sizeof(dbprop)/sizeof(dbprop[0]);

// Initialize the provider-specific property set.
dbpropset[1].guidPropertySet = DBPROPSET_SSCE_DBINIT;
dbpropset[1].rgProperties = sscedbprop;
dbpropset[1].cProperties = sizeof(sscedbprop)/sizeof(sscedbprop[0]);

// Set the properties into the provider's data source object.
pIDBInitialize->QueryInterface(IID_IDBProperties,(void**)&pIDBProperties);

hr = pIDBProperties->SetProperties(sizeof(dbpropset)/sizeof(dbpropset[0]), 
    dbpropset);
if(FAILED(hr))
{
    goto Exit;
}

// Initialize the data source.
hr = pIDBInitialize->Initialize();
if(FAILED(hr))
{
   goto Exit;
}

Exit:
//Clean up resources here

return;