This is a technology that enables an ASP server to access data from a data source. It provides an easy to use object interface to the OLE database access mechanisms.

The ADO object model is built around a set of objects of the following kinds:

• Command

• Connection

• Record

• Recordset

• Stream

The ADO object model includes the following collections containing objects of these types:

• Errors

• Fields

• Parameters

• Properties

This is all covered in greater depth in the Wrox book "ASP 3.0 Programmers Reference".