Figure 1. DAO Isn't Dead Yet ADO still lacks the speed of DAO and RDO in local data access, despite the hype you hear about ADO as the unified data access method for all types of data in different locations. If you had hoped that RDO and DAO were history, perhaps you should hold onto them for a while. Here's hoping that Microsoft addresses this issue in the next version of VB or, better yet, an interim ADO release (2.5?).