A part of MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components), it provides a middleware layer between programming languages and OLE DB (a means of accessing data stores, whether databases or not, in a uniform manner).
•
No knowledge of SQL is required to access a database when using ADO, although one can use ADO to execute SQL commands directly (with the disadvantage of introducing a dependency upon the type of database used).
It has rich built-in functionality for easy scripting and provides access to ADSI, ADO, WMI, etc.
MSDAIPP (Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider) is a component of Microsoft Windows that can be used to enumerate or access Internet resources within an application that uses ActiveX Data Objects or OLEDB.
Digital data | Array data structure | Electronic Data Systems | Data General | A History of the World in 100 Objects | Data East | data center | data | Control Data Corporation | Radio Data System | Automatic Data Processing | Protein Data Bank | Objects of cultural heritage in Poland | data compression | Data | Data storage device | Data (Star Trek) | data mining | ActiveX | The Safety of Objects | Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems | Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution | Data rate units | Data Protection Act 1998 | Data Encryption Standard | Data compression | Computer data storage | Word (data type) | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard | National Oceanographic Data Center |
VBScript users may write their own sort method or borrow one from an existing object like an ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) Recordset or a .