Chapter 11. ADO Express Components for C++Builder

by Mark Cashman

ADO stands for ActiveX Database Objects. ADO is Microsoft’s replacement for the ODBC (the Open Database Connectivity) standard and earlier data access technologies, such as DAO and RDO.

ADO is a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface) that replaces the C language-based ODBC API and makes it easier to use object-oriented techniques with databases even in low-level programming.

The ADO components hide most of the complexity ...

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