ADO and ODBC

• ADO – Active Data Objects – high-level COM layers on OLE DB interface to data

• ODBC – more primitive, less scalable and manageable interface to data

• ODBC supported natively in VFP’s Remote Views and Connections, SQL* functions

• ADO can be interfaced to VFP

• VFP 7 first with OLE-DB provider for VFP data