Remote Data Objects (RDO) is designed specifically for working with remote data sources. This includes ODBC and most common SQL database systems. In fact, RDO acts as an object
The basic object used to manipulate data in RDO is a Resultset (specifically, the rdoResultset object). A new Resultset can be defined in your Visual Basic application and passed to the Report Designer Component at runtime using the SetDataSource method. The RDO data source used to initially create your report at design time, however, is not available for direct manipulation. Instead, information about the connection to the data source is stored inside the instance of the Report Designer Component that you add to your application. By creating a new Resultset at runtime, though, and passing the Resultset to the Report Designer Component, you can control the data in a report based on user requests and responses.
RDO provides a powerful connection to remote data sources through ODBC. If you are designing a client/ server application, or any application that needs to connect to a large database system such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or Sybase Adaptive Server, RDO can provide a strong solution. However, RDO limits your application to standard relational database systems. Other sources of data, such as e
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