Summary
This chapter has explained the architecture behind the ActiveX Data Objects technology. The following is a list of some key items pointed out in this chapter:
ADO offers a generic data-access interface that is used to communicate with a wide range of proprietary data sources and providers.
With ADO, the burden of creating efficient data access is placed upon the individual data provider, not the data-access technology.
The ADO architecture is comprised of nine major components. These components include the Connection object, the Command object, the Parameters collection and the Parameter object, the Recordset object, the Fields collection and Field object, the Record object, the Stream object, the Properties collection and the Property object, and finally, the Errors collection and the Error object.
The rest of this book walks you through the nitty gritty of application development using the ActiveX Data Objects technology. You will next learn how to access ADO through various different development languages, and then we will dive into the actual components of ADO.
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