Microsoft KB Archive/160173

= Performance Characteristics of the Datasource Object vs. ADODB =

Article ID: 160173

Article Last Modified on 9/30/2003

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 * Microsoft Commerce Server 2.0

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SUMMARY
Q. What are the performance characteristics of using the Datasource object versus using ADODB? Are there specific advantages to using one over the other?



MORE INFORMATION
A. The Datasource object is based on ADODB objects. The value added is the optimal way in which to use ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) for SQL Server and Oracle databases. ADO allows you to run an SQL statement in many ways, and each way has significant performance implications. The Content object has been tuned to give better performance. Also, there are some issues with ADO and Oracle that are addressed in the Datasource object. However, there is nothing in the system that prevents you from using either ADO directly or your own Component Object Model (COM) data access object. In fact, the starter stores use ADO directly on the management pages to demonstrate its usage.

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