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Chapter 1: ADO Fundamentals
This chapter is an introduction to the ADO library. It discusses what you can do with ADO, reviews the objects in the ADO hierarchy, and presents a simple ADO application that uses many of the ADO objects to retrieve, edit, and update data from a data source. Finally, this chapter covers two issues that are important to understand for writing ADO applications: OLE DB providers and errors.