Data Access and Transactions

Other Data Access Methods

In today’s fast-paced technological arena, it is not surprising to find that last year’s good idea is this year’s outdated software. For the sake of those that cannot throw away older technology just to adopt the latest craze, the following section enumerates some older data access technologies that are still supported by IIS 5.0. However, unless you have a good business reason to use them, you should rely on ADO instead. ADO is designed to balance flexibility with programmatic simplicity. In most cases, it is the only data access method you will need.

See the following:

ADC
Jet Database Engine and DAO
RDO