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ADO is a Microsoft technology, and stands for ActiveX Data Objects. It is a high-level programming interface used to access data in a database. ADO is designed as an easy-to-use application level interface to Microsoft's low-level data access interface, OLE DB.
The Clarion ADO classes and templates were created to provide access to the MS ADO database connectivity layer. While not specifically a database driver, it is accessed in a similar manner. As such, intrinsic data file operations will not function and require that the provided class methods and templates be used.
ADO is automatically installed with Microsoft IIS as an Active X component. ADO is a common way to access a database from inside a web page (like an ASP page). For example, to connect to a database inside an ASP page:
1.Create an ADO connection to a database
2.Open the database connection
3.Create an ADO recordset
4.Open the recordset
5.Extract the data you need from the recordset
6.Close the recordset
7.Close the connection
The important thing to note here is the specific opening and closing of the database connection. Failure to specifically close an ADO connection can result in memory leakage.