Exporting Tables, Queries, and Forms to Active Server Pages

Active Server Pages (ASPs) play the primary role in Microsoft's strategy to gain for IE and IIS the predominate position in the Internet browser and server markets. ASP uses server-side scripting, OLE DB, and ActiveX Data Objects (ADOs) to generate HTML files from desktop and client/server databases. ADO is an Automation wrapper (interface) for Microsoft's new OLE DB API, which first appeared in late 1996. OLE DB's objective is to provide a simpler mechanism than SQL-oriented ODBC for accessing data stored in any type of row/column format. ADO defines an Automation object, similar in concept to Access's ODBCDirect and Visual Basic's Remote Data Object (RDO). ADO supplies a Recordset ...

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