DAO

To conform with Microsoft's vision of a Universal Data Access (UDA) model, programmers are being encouraged to move from DAO , although still widely used, to ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) and its low-level interface with databases, OLE DB. ADO and OLE DB offer a faster interface that is also easier to program.

Read more about DAO: - Microsoft has a special Web site about ActiveX Data Objects . - SearchVB.com, a portal for Visual Basic developers, includes a collection of links about DAO.

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