NAME DBD::ADO - A DBI driver for Microsoft ADO (Active Data Objects) SYNOPSIS use DBI(); my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ADO:$dsn", $user, $passwd ); DESCRIPTION The DBD::ADO module supports ADO access on a Win32 machine. DBD::ADO is written to support the standard DBI interface to data sources. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install You need to use the correct make command. That may be nmake or dmake, depending on which development environment you are using. If using the Win32 ActiveState build then it is recommended that you use the ppm utility to fetch and install the module instead. PREREQUISITES DBI Win32::OLE ADO (http://www.microsoft.com/Data/download.htm) AUTHORS Tim Bunce and Phlip. With many thanks to Jan Dubois and Jochen Wiedmann for additions, debuggery and general help. Special thanks to Thomas Lowery, who maintained this module 2001-2003. Current maintainer is Steffen Goeldner. SUPPORT This software is supported via the dbi-users mailing list. For more information and to keep informed about progress you can join the mailing list by sending a message to dbi-users-help@perl.org Please post details of any problems (or changes you needed to make) to dbi-users@perl.org and CC them to me (sgoeldner@cpan.org). COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1998, Tim Bunce Copyright (c) 1999, Tim Bunce, Phlip, Thomas Lowery Copyright (c) 2000, Tim Bunce, Thomas Lowery Copyright (c) 2001, Tim Bunce, Thomas Lowery, Steffen Goeldner Copyright (c) 2002, Thomas Lowery, Steffen Goeldner Copyright (c) 2003, Thomas Lowery, Steffen Goeldner Copyright (c) 2004, Steffen Goeldner Copyright (c) 2005, Steffen Goeldner Copyright (c) 2006, Steffen Goeldner All rights reserved. You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.