Later we'll see how the Data Command control uses this information to build connections to your database. But there is no way to enforce licensing restrictions in today's world of Internet data access, since there are no persistent connections to your database server. The structure of these tables is shown in Figure 6 . The Stories table is where all stories are kept. A story consists of an abstract and a body.
Links contains a number of links that can be grouped into categories.
We'll use a SQL statement to filter for the categories that we want to add in the Web site. Once you've defined the database connection, you'll want to create some additional ADO components to query and manipulate the data in the database. By using the Data Command control, you can greatly simplify the amount of work needed to create these components. 1999 ZD Inc. All rights reserved.