ADO is provided as a DLL, and usually installed at "c:program filescommon filessystemadomsadox.dll".
ADO can access databases connected through ODBC data source names (DSN).
ADO can also access MS Access database files.
ADO is built on top of OLE DB technology.
ADO API is very similar to DAO.
This chapter shows you how to use ADO to connect ASP pages to MS Access databases. It also shows various interesting issues related to taking user input data to database and retrieving data from database to Web pages.ASP > Tips and Tutorials > Database-relatedOct 10, 2006Herong Yang
But why? I read Part I and I was able to implement a simple database program very easily. Why would I need to learn anything more?
You might have implemented some database program.. but I am sure it would be a very simple one. You may even be able to implement a good database program without Joins. But you wouldn't be using the features of SQL that let you do the same work much easily. Without Joins, you may manage SQL.. but with Joins you could do things very easily
Displaying specific subsets of data from a database is easy to accomplish in .asp. The following example utilizes our Access database of Mark "The Bird" Fidrych and displays all of his season statistics for 1976 contained in the database rather than displaying the entire db.
The SQL Distributed Management objects (SQL-DMO) extend the functionality of SQL Server by providing developers a way to execute common tasks using programming and scripting languages. The first article in this series entitled "Using the SQL Distributed Management Objects", provided an overview of SQL-DMO. This article expands upon those concepts by showing you how to use SQL-DMO to create an Active Server Page application to backup and verify a SQL Server database.
Sometimes, we would have chance to convert our existing database or create a new database. Some decisions IT professionals need to make are scary, and choosing database software is one of them. This overview aims to describe how to set database connections with some common database software. Hopefully, you would find it useful
Joining mailing list will entitle you
to receive occasional emails informing you of news and
updates to the site and any special offers that may be
of interest to you.