Database Access Test	VB5	VB6
	Local DAO	Yes	Yes
	Local ADO ODBC, server-side cursor	Yes	Yes
	Local RDO, server-side cursor	Yes	Yes
	Local ADO ODBC, client-side cursor	Yes	Yes
	Local RDO ODBC, client-side cursor	Yes	Yes
	Local ADO OLE DB, client-side cursor	No	Yes
	Local ADO OLE DB, server-side cursor	No	Yes
	Remote RDO ODBC, client-side cursor	Yes	Yes
	Remote RDO, server-side cursor	Yes	Yes
	Remote ADO ODBC, client-side cursor	Yes	Yes
	Remote ADO ODBC, server-side cursor	Yes	Yes
	Remote ADO OLE DB, client-side cursor	No	Yes
	Remote ADO OLE DB, server-side cursor	No	Yes

Table 1 Benchmarks Test Variety of Data Access Methods. We conducted this test using a variety of database connectivity methods. We chose these components because they represent the most commonly used approaches to accessing data, and we used all methods with their default settings. We did not attempt to optimize through changing any of the cache sizes or page sizes because changing these settings would have opened a wide variety of new tests beyond the scope of this article. The handful of tests using OLE DB were performed in VB6 only; there is no equivalent test for VB5.