The ADO model strives to expose everything that the underlying data provider can do, while still adding value by providing shortcuts for common operations.
In the future, ADO will become a superset of RDO.
Because ADO is a COM-based component, any application or language capable of working with COM objects can use itincluding Visual Basic. At this time there is no licensing restriction for ADO.
ADO scripts are written with Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting edition.