Forum Post: RE: how to connect a database in .w file?

[Thomas Mercer-Hursh]

To be clear, connection to the database must be "outside" the procedure or class which accesses the database. This can be via a startup parameter, i.e., the connection is established prior to running any actual ABL code or it can be done in ABL code, but if done in code one must go one level farther down, i.e., into a run .p or .w or into a newed class before that connection can be used.

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