ActiveX™ Data Objects (ADO)
ActiveX™ Data Objects (ADO) enables you to write an application to access and manipulate data in a database server through an OLE DB provider. ADO’s primary benefits are high speed, ease of use, low memory overhead, and a small disk footprint.
To interact with a database server, you must write script that creates ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). Using ADO, you can open and manage a connection, request and retrieve data from a database server, perform updates, deletes, and appends, and retrieve information about ODBC errors.
The Web server functions as the central component in the Web application at runtime. It receives requests for Web pages from the user's Web browser, sends any requests for data or database commands to the database server over a LAN connection using ODBC, receives data from the database server, and sends pages and data back to the user's browser.