ADO Introduction

ADO can be used to access databases from your web pages

What you should already know

Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following:

HTML

ASP

SQL

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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

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

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