ADO programming with Adaptive Server OLE DB Provider

ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) is a data access object model exposed through an Automation interface, which allows client applications to discover the methods and properties of objects at runtime without any prior knowledge of the object. Automation allows scripting languages like Visual Basic to use a standard data access object model. ADO uses OLE DB to provide access to data on different databases.

Using the Adaptive Server OLE DB Provider, you get full access to Adaptive Server features from an ADO programming environment.

This section describes how to carry out basic tasks using ADO from Visual Basic. It is not a complete guide to programming using ADO. For information on programming in ADO, see your development tool documentation.