ADO 21 Programmer's Reference Author:David Sussman, Alex Homer ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) is the core technology for accessing all kinds of data including relational databases, mail servers, text and other document files, and data in other non-standard formats. It is supplied with many development environments, including Microsoft's Visual C++, Visual Basic and Visual J++, and as part of the Windows NT oper... more »ating system; and is also available for free from http://www.microsoft.com. It is also commonly used by ASP developers, but is supported by all COM-compliant languages. This book is a guide and reference to using ADO for your data access. We explain the structure of the ADO 2.1 object model. We cover usage of the entire object model, with extra information and examples that focus on the most commonly-used aspects of the objects. The book also contains chapters on remote access using RDS, new technologies ADOX (ADO Extensions for DDL and Security), ADOMD (ADO Multi-Dimensional) and JRO (Jet Replication Objects), and a guide to performance issues.« less