Sams Teach Yourself ADO 2.5 in 21 Days teaches you how to build distributed database applications using today's latest technologies. Step-by-step tutorials and real-world examples illustrate how ADO enables programmers to access data in the most optimal manner. This book's coverage includes basic implementation of ADO 2.5 (i.e., data manipulation, working with recordsets, using stored procedures), advanced techniques (i.e., how to work asynchronously, data shaping, building applications, database management), and using ADO in a distributed environment (i.e., designing COM+ apps, the in-memory database, disconnecting data, using remote data service, debugging and tuning).