2.5. Database Operations in Visual Basic
In this section, we will discuss the connection between Visual Basic and databases.
There are different ways to access data sources from within Visual Basic, especially for remote client-server database applications. The following methods are most utilized to access a data source from the Visual Basic programming environment:
Data Access Object (DAO)
Data Control
ODBCDirect
Remote Data Object (RDO)
Remote Data Control (RDC)
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
Visual Basic Library for SQL Server (VBSQL)
ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
There are so many introductions to the principles and applications of different database implementations on Visual Basic, we don't want to duplicate those materials here. We want to concentrate ...
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