I have a general question about where ADO comes from - is it a part of the
Windows operating system that all Windows conputers will have, or is it
installed along with the Office applications?

Thanks,

Peter G. Aitken

ADO is really a seperate entity. By installing A2K ADO is installed but updates
can be obtained from the MS site. Check out
http://www.microsoft.com/data/ado/default.htm or the Universal Data Access pages,
http://www.microsoft.com/data

Simon

Hi Peter,

Please replace A2K with "it ships with Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual
Studio, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Back Office and numerous other Microsoft
products. In addition, developers can re-distribute the MDAC stack through the
MDAC_TYP.exe" Q231383

Simon

Alright Simon I'll bite: what the heck is A2K?

ADO is really a seperate entity. By installing A2K ADO is installed but
updates
can be obtained from the MS site. Check out
http://www.microsoft.com/data/ado/default.htm or the Universal Data Access
pages,
http://www.microsoft.com/data

Simon

Access 2000 :) Sorry just a shorthand way of writing it.

Simon