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ADO can be used to access databases from your web pages.

What you should already know

Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following:

WWW, HTML and the basics of building Web pages
Active Server Pages (ASP)
Structured Query Language (SQL)

If you want to study these subjects first, go to our Home page

What is ADO?

ADO is a Microsoft technology
ADO stands for ActiveX Data Objects
ADO is a Microsoft Active-X component
ADO is automatically installed with Microsoft IIS
ADO is a programming interface to access data in a database

Accessing a Database from an ASP Page

The common way to access a database from inside an ASP page is to:

Create an ADO connection to a database
Open the database connection
Create an ADO recordset
Open the recordset
Extract the data you need from the recordset
Close the recordset
Close the connection