... Using ADO. NET Databases With the advent of the .NET Framework, Microsoft decided to update its model for accessing databases, ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) , and created ADO. NET. ADO. NET contains ... over the original ADO architecture, providing improved interoperability and performance. If you are already familiar with ADO, you will notice that the object model of ADO. NET is a little different. ... example, you can connect to SQL Server by using the .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server, or the .NET Framework Data Provider for OLE DB. The .NET Data Provider for SQL Server is optimized...