Description:
Microsoft's new ActiveX Data Object (ADO) 2 standard for database access allows programs to access traditional databases just as easily as other types of data (such as Web pages and spreadsheets). The ADO 2.0 Programmer's Reference gets you up and running with the new ADO and includes a full reference to its objects and methods. This book explains what ADO is and how it improves upon Microsoft's older database standards. The authors provide valuable samples of how to use ADO in Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Visual J++/Java. They then move on to basic objects and collections used in ADO, such as Connection and Recordset objects, as well as objects that permit you to program with stored procedures for SQL databases. The authors then take a look at how ADO and XML will facilitate offline database applications. They also offer some real-world benchmarking of actual ADO features put to the test. (For example, the authors suggest which SQL Server cursor options are best.) The reference closes with more than 100 pages of reference material to all the objects, methods, constants, and error codes found in the new ADO. Much more convenient than online help, this guide will readily meet the needs of any Web developer who wants to become productive with ADO with a minimum of extraneous overhead. --Richard Dragan
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