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Re: Solution Architectures Exam 70-100 Data Access Methods
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| Alan Davis 2002-06-22, 7:02 pm |
| On Tue, 7 May 2002 21:47:49 -0600, "Tim" <spammers@begone> wrote:
>Unless, of course, ADO.Net is also offered as a choice since it is "hot" and
>ADO is a crude 'legacy' tool. 
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Except ado.net was not around in 1998, when the exam was being
developed.
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>I agree that choosing the 'new' technology is the best strategy for
>guessing, but I'm absolutely positive that there are cases on MS exams where
>for some reason an older technology is a better answer in some
>circumstances. So unless I was really unprepared for a question (or didn't
>have time to read it), I would not rely on that 'rule' very much.
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One example would be If you were enhancing an existing system that
used, say RDO. You may not want to introduce ado into application or
convert the existing DALC's to use ADO as this would increase
maintenance overhead and increase costs which one would expect, reduce
the TCO of the enhancement.
>As I remember, data access libraries were mentioned only very briefly on
>70-100, but it's been a while since I took it.
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True, but it is still an important issue.
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| Karl L. Houseknecht 2002-06-22, 7:03 pm |
| I don't seem to recall any question on the exam that dealt specifically with
ADO or RDO. When I took this exam, it was the newer version with all the
funky drag-and-drop functionality and requirements analysis questions. I
think there were only 10 questions total and it took me the better part of
an hour to answer them.
To attempt to answer your question, I would have to say that you should use
ADO whenever possible, especially in new development. If you have an
existing application that uses RDO, keep using it. Microsoft has already
said that support for DAO is gone. I can't recall if they included RDO in
that statement or not.
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"T.R. Nowell" <trnowell@hawkpci.net> wrote in message
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> ...but I have still not found solid reasoning as to when you
> should use ADO over RDO or the other way around.
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