What's up with ADO?

Example of how to add a row to a db table, in ADO:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms677536(VS.85).aspx

What the f? Is ADO really this bad?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680885(VS.85).aspx

Okay, that's better.

[Maybe it's not better. That example showed off how to combine several queries into one string, then have the system return a collection of result sets. To use the data, you write a loop within a loop, and extract the results.]