ASP Database Fundamentals (Part 1) - What's All The Ado About ADO?
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The default method to communicate with a database from within ASP is to use ADO. ADO stands for ActiveX Data Objects, and is an application program interface from Microsoft that lets a programmer writing Windows applications get access to a relational or non-relational database from both Microsoft and other database providers.
ADO can be utilized in many different development languages for Windows, including Visual Basic and Visual C++. As an example, you might using ADO to connect your Visual Basic application to an Oracle Database, or your Visual C++ application to SQL Server. In our case, we will focus on its use within ASP.
In addition, in our examples we will utilize a Microsoft Access database as the back-end data repository. There are many web hosting providers available that will host your ASP websites, but most of them charge extra for usage of a robust database like SQL2000. On the other hand, most of these providers offer the usage of MS Access databases at a very small fee, if any at all.
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