DAO & ADO performance

[ksheeraj]

Hi ,
Can anybody have any Idea why ADO is 10times slower then DAO ?I was upgrading my database application from DAO interface to ADO interface.I discover that it take more time to read and write value from MS-Access data base.
Is it right that ADO is using ODBC API to talk with the data base?

Ksheeraj

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[Lothar Haensler]

ADO uses whatever OLEDB provider you specify.
There is a native OLEDB provider for Jet databases, but there is also an OLEDB provider for ODBC data sources.
I can easily imagine that ADO is slower the DAO as far as jet databases are concerned. This is not true for SQL Server, though.

[ksheeraj]

I tried same application on SQLServer also.But not so much difference.
How is the performance of OLEDB 2.0 Interface.
Ksheeraj

39639,Leslie St.
Apt #157
Fremont USA 94538

[Lothar Haensler]

for accessing SQLServer I use the OLEDB provider for ODBC data sources exclusively. I have done some minÃ*mal testing with the native OLEDB provider for SQLServer, but IMHO it sucks!
"Many things" simple don't work with that provider and I didn't want to waste time finding out why.

As for performance: well it has to be a bit slower than ODBC, because the OLEDB provider for ODBC uses ODBC as the underlying interface.
I have not found any performance issues in my applications so far.

[AxeMurderer]

Hi,

I've experienced some performance problems with ADO. First of all, I suggest you run Profile to see which task is most time consuming. If you find that it is INSERT, then maybe you're opening a recordset to the table, a task which is very time consuming. Instead, try using the Connection.Execute() method.

Hope this helps.
Bye,

Axe.