ADO 2.1 Programmer's Reference

by David Sussman

ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) is the core technology for accessing all kinds of data including relational databases, mail servers, text and other document files, and data in other non-standard formats.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861002688
• ISBN13: 9781861002686
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A good reference, but a lot of typos

I agree that this is an excellent reference source for ADO, but I was dismayed to find a number of typos that kept me searching other sources for proper syntax (e.g. the example on page 20 has a space between OLE and DB in a line of code, which will return an error.) Hopefully these will be fixed in subsequent printings.

Excellent must have book. For the shelf above your monitor.

I was looking for pure reference. This is it. It will tell you essentially everything you need to know about ADO. I used it on NT with ADO 2.1 on MS Access 97 database. This helped tremendously. Remember those old Borland books where they tell you which C functions work on which operating systems? This book takes the same approach. Even though it says ADO 2.6, it distinguishes what works on NT, vs Win2000. Also helps you with database differences, Oracle vs SQL Server vs MSAccess.You'll wear out the binding like I did, I guarantee it. Happy programming!

Excellent book... more than just a reference

This is an excellent update to the original ADO 2.0 & ADO 2.1 programmer's reference. It covers all of the new features in a very readable and easy to use format. There are lots of code snippets and example to help you understand quickly.The ADO objects are all covered in detail, along with ADOX, ADOMD, Remote Data Services, Jet replication, Data Shaping, even XML stuff. Plus there is an interesting chapter on Performance issues which gives you a hand in deciding what sort of techniques to use to speed things up. There are also around 15 appendices which have just the method names, constants and quick summaries so you can look them up fast. There are even charts showing which drivers support which OLE DB properties and which providers support which schemas. Very highly recommended. First-rate reference book, excellent price. If you already program with ADO you cannot go wrong with this.

ado 2.1 Programmer's Reference

A good resource book if you know how to use RDO,DAO in visual basic. The only lacking part of this book is good examples even though some are available.

The best quick reference for ADO programmers I have found!

Its a very easy to follow book with ADO source for most visual studio products. I used it for enterprise VB6 development and found everything I needed to know. It has a very good reference in the back for ADO constant names and values, came in really handly when coding an ADO error handling class.