ADO in Excel VBA – Connecting to database using SQL

2026-07-31T17:49:29+05:30

ADO Stands for ActiveX Data Objects, is Microsoft’s Client-Server technology to access the data between Client and Server. ADO can’t access the data source directly, it will take help of OLE DB Provider to communicate with the data source. Most of the times OLE DB providers are specific to a particular Data Source Type. However, we have an OLE DB provider for ODBC, it is a general purpose provider with help of this ADO can access any Data source which can understand ODBC.

In this topic:
  • What is ADO?
  • What is Database?
  • What is SQL?
  • Practical Learning: Using ADO and SQL with VBA
  • Example File