Chapter 15. Data Programming Made Easy with ADODB
Database technology has changed rapidly. Its history makes interesting coffee-table talk, but the important point is that database technology has evolved to the stage that database programming is much less complicated than it was just a few years ago.
As part of this development, Microsoft established Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), a standard for database connectivity. ODBC defines a similar standard for connecting to all databases that use it. Microsoft has made database programming even easier with ADODB. Among the many ways of talking to databases, ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) is Microsoft’s latest and greatest. I will be focusing solely on ADODB in this hour.
ADODB is prereferenced in the Visual ...
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