Jet Data Access Objects

Not to be confused with data access object.

Jet Data Access Objects is a deprecated general programming interface for database access on Microsoft Windows systems.

History

DAO were originally called VT Objects. DAO 1.0 came up in November 1992. In version 3.5 it was able to bypass the Jet engine altogether and directly access ODBC data sources, including Microsoft SQL Server and other enterprise database systems. DAO 3.6 was the final version developed by Microsoft. Microsoft says that DAO will not be available in its future 64-bit operating systems.[1]

Design

DAO works by creating a "Workspace" object in which all database operations are performed. The workspace object exists as a session object that exists within a larger database engine object. There are two types of database engines: a Jet database engine object, and an ODBCDirect database engine.

Jet

The Jet database engine object consists of several objects:

ODBCDirect

The ODBCDirect database engine consists of a workspace object and an errors object. The main differences between this database engine and the Jet database engine are:

The ODBC connection objects consist of QueryDef objects and recordset objects.

See also

References

DAO object model diagram with links to class reference pages

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