ASP ADO

ADO is used to access databases from web pages.

Accessing the database from an ASP page

The usual way to access the database from within an ASP page is:

1. Create an ADO connection to the database

2. Open database connection

3. Create ADO record set

4. Open record set

5. Extract the data you need from the data set

6. Close the data set

7. Close the connection

What is ADO?

• ADO is a Microsoft technology

• ADO stands for AactiveX Data Objects

• ADO is a Microsoft Active-X component

• ADO will be automatically installed with Microsoft IIS

• ADO is a programming interface for accessing data in a database

If you want to learn more about ADO, please read our ADO tutorial.