Create ActiveX DLL for Crystal Reports UDL Function that will insert row in DB table

Hello!

I got a new project on my desk and have no idea how to accomplish it.
I am working with SQL Server 2012 and Crystal Reports 11.
I have a report that is being emailed through an automated email application (Reportal) to the Ink Department.
The email contains a list of job numbers and job description for all jobs in process that need ink mixed.
The Operations Manager is upset because it takes a long time for the ink matcher to clock in each job number and say ink mix is done.
He wants me to add a button or hyperlink to each line of the report and somehow pass the job number for each row to some function that would clock the ink matcher into the job.

From reading online it appears I need to create a DLL - ActiveX which can be copied into the Crystal Report folder and used as a user function in the Crystal Report.

I want to pass the jobnumber field to this function.

How do you create a function that inserts a row in the database?

I know SQL, so I know how to write the insert into table code but I don't know how to create a function in COM and export it as a DLL file.

I have 0 experience in Visual Basic.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thank you!