$conStr = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=hello.mdb;" $sqlStr = "SELECT 'Hello, ADO.NET World!' AS Message" $con = New-Object System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection($conStr) $cmd = New-Object System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand($sqlStr, $con) $con.Open() $reader = $cmd.ExecuteReader() while ( $reader.read() ) { $reader.getName(0) "---------------------" $reader[0] } $con.Close()