ADO Introduction

ADO is used to access the database from a web page.

Access the database from an ASP page

The usual way to access the database from within an ASP file is:

  1. Create an ADO connection to the database (ADO connection)
  2. Open a database connection
  3. Create an ADO recordset (ADO recordset)
  4. Open the recordset (recordset)
  5. Extract the data you need from the dataset
  6. Close the dataset
  7. Close the connection

What is ADO?

  • ADO is a technology from Microsoft
  • ADO refers to ActiveX Data Objects
  • ADO is a Microsoft Active-X component
  • ADO will be automatically installed with Microsoft IIS
  • ADO is a programming interface used to access data in databases

What to learn next?

If you want to learn more about ADO, please read our ADO Tutorial.