Connecting from Windows (VB6.0) app to SQL on Internet

Hello,
We have a client-server application written in VB 6.0 that connects to a
SQL Server instance on the local network. We're interested to know if we ar
e
able to use our same VB 6.0 application but connect to a SQL Server that is
hosted on a web domain. That is, if we have our SQL database hosted by a
service provider on the internet, are we able to simply change our connectio
n
string in our application so that we connect to this SQL Server instance and
not the SQL Server on the LAN? If possible we hope to avoid having to
rewrite our application as a .NET application...
Thanks.Yes that's doable. It's not unusual to develop applications
locally and then change the connection string to access the
"live" database.
-Sue
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:17:02 -0800, aglanz
<aglanz@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hello,
> We have a client-server application written in VB 6.0 that connects to
a
>SQL Server instance on the local network. We're interested to know if we a
re
>able to use our same VB 6.0 application but connect to a SQL Server that is
>hosted on a web domain. That is, if we have our SQL database hosted by a
>service provider on the internet, are we able to simply change our connecti
on
>string in our application so that we connect to this SQL Server instance an
d
>not the SQL Server on the LAN? If possible we hope to avoid having to
>rewrite our application as a .NET application...
>Thanks.|||In your connection, you would specify the IP address of the hosting server.
http://www.able-consulting.com/ADO_Conn.htm
"aglanz" <aglanz@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9E786AE0-5D0C-48DA-86BC-B39F9871CC03@.microsoft.com...
> Hello,
> We have a client-server application written in VB 6.0 that connects to
a
> SQL Server instance on the local network. We're interested to know if we
are
> able to use our same VB 6.0 application but connect to a SQL Server that
is
> hosted on a web domain. That is, if we have our SQL database hosted by a
> service provider on the internet, are we able to simply change our
connection
> string in our application so that we connect to this SQL Server instance
and
> not the SQL Server on the LAN? If possible we hope to avoid having to
> rewrite our application as a .NET application...
> Thanks.