ActiveX Data Objects - Basic Usage

Basic Usage

Some basic steps are required in order to be able to access and manipulate data using ADO :

  1. Create a connection object to connect to the database.
  2. Create a recordset object in order to receive data in.
  3. Open the connection
  4. Populate the recordset by opening it and passing the desired table name or SQL statement as a parameter to open function.
  5. Do all the desired searching/processing on the fetched data.
  6. Commit the changes you made to the data (if any) by using Update or UpdateBatch methods.
  7. Close the recordset
  8. Close the connection

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