Microsoft® ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO) enable your client applications to access and manipulate data in a database server through any OLE DB provider.
For information about support for Microsoft data access components, see the Getting Help from Microsoft Technical Support page.
For information about the Data Access SDK, see the "Data Access SDK Overview.
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ADO supports key features for building client/server and Web-based applications. Its primary benefits are ease of use, high speed, low memory overhead, and a small disk footprint.
To learn more about ADO, see the ADO Overview. Please see the Microsoft Web page for ADO 2.0 Release Notes at http://www.microsoft.com/data/ado.
ADO MD extends ADO to include objects specific to multidimensional data, and allows you to browse multidimensional schema, query a cube, and retrieve the results.
To learn more about ADO MD, see the ADO MD Overview. Please see the Microsoft Web page for ADO MD Release Notes at http://www.microsoft.com/data/ado.