ADO and ODBC
u ADO – Active Data Objects – high-level COM
layers on OLE DB interface to data
u ODBC – more primitive, less scalable and
manageable interface to data
u ODBC supported natively in VFP’s Remote
Views and Connections, SQL* functions
u ADO can be interfaced to VFP
u VFP 7 first with OLE-DB provider for VFP data