Database Usage

Now that you have a database set up, and you have fully documented it, you are ready to use it. But how? Microsoft has recognized that most Visual Basic applications are data-centric, and has provided multiple object-based methods for accessing the data you need. Database vendors have chimed in as well, supplying their own object models for data management and database administration purposes. Data connection objects have become an alphabet soup of communication methods, including DAO (Data Access Objects), ADO (ActiveX Data Objects), RDO (Remote Data Objects), ODBC (Open Database Connectivity), Jet (Microsoft Access), SQL-DMO (SQL Server Distributed Management Objects), ISAM (Indexed Sequential Access Method), and OO4O (Oracle ...

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