Hour 20. Database Access
If you've been using computers for a while now, you may remember the early days of the World Wide Web. When it first arrived, the Web was just a collection of images and static text. Later, the emergence of animation and sound broke up the monotony, but static text still prevailed. Then, one of the biggest technological advancements that transformed the Web from a source of information to a viable application platform was the emergence of server-side data access.
The use of data within databases has been around for a long time, but there hasn't been a shortage or slowdown of advancements in the field. The redesign of ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) within Visual Studio .NET is a testament to this fact. This redesign was so ...
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