Please review an article that I have written on ADO:

http://66.11.128.141/articles/ado.pdf

The purpose of this article is to educate semi-technical people on the
subject of ADO. After reading the article, they should have a good
overview knowledge of the subject and should be able to have a
discussion about the technology with a more educated person.

Is the article technically correct? Are there any technical mistakes?

Do you feel that the article conveys the important facts about ADO? If
not, what pieces do you think are missing?

Please comment on the quality of the information in the article. Where
would you improve on it?

Thanks!

Hi, jroff:

My spell checker picked up a couple of trivial things to fix
(relizable, threetier).

At a quick glance I didn't spot any technical mistakes.  However you
might want to highlight in your "history" of data access technologies
the importance of the ADO vs. ADO.Net "refactoring".  After all the
diagrammatic treatement of three-tier architectures at least mentions
the .Net innovations.

Here's a Microsoft Web site that summarizes the differences in a
semi-technical way:

[ADO vs. ADO.Net]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/adonetprogmsdn.asp?frame=true

best wishes, mathtalk