This book is a complete guide om building powerful, distributed database applications using today's hottest data access technology. It provides a complete practical overview of ADO and related distributed application technologies.

This book is not only your key to get up and running fast, but also gain the knowledge to create scalable applications for today's needs. Written by experts from the field, it contains real-world examples that can be used in your projects immediately.

Provides blow-by-blow coverage of all the major ADO objects and methods along with many useful hints for successful programming. Includes coverage of ADO data shaping, which allows you to treat joined records as hierarchical record sets.

ADO 2.6 is a cross-language technology that forms part of Microsoft's Universal Data Access strategy and brings flexible, easy control over your data access. This reference is a guide to using ADO 2.6 for the rapid development of your data applications.