Introduction to ADO
ADO can be used to access databases from your web pages.
Accessing a Database from an ASP Page
The common way to access a database from inside an ASP page is to:
- Create an ADO connection to a database
- Open the database connection
- Create an ADO recordset
- Open the recordset
- Extract the data you need from the recordset
- Close the recordset
- Close the connection
What is ADO?
- ADO is a Microsoft technology
- ADO stands for ActiveX Data Objects
- ADO is a Microsoft Active-X component
- ADO is automatically installed with Microsoft IIS
- ADO is a programming interface to access data in a database
Where to go next?
If you want to study more ADO, read our ADO tutorial.
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