Publisher's Synopsis
The release of ADO revolutionized data access by providing a universal means of accessing data from both relational and non-relational sources. ADO has been growing steadily in functionality since its inception: ADO 2.1 added extensions for data definition and security, and support for multi-dimensional data. ADO 2.5, to be released with Windows 2000, adds even more functionality, including two completely new objects for manipulating streams of text or binary data, and for managing objects within the file system. It also includes a new data provider for accessing web resources. This book provides coverage of all aspects of programming with ADO 2.5, and sets out to provide the reader with all the information necessary to fully exploit this technology in your data-centric applications.
