General Notes
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This directory contains the ADO Performance analysis tool, built to test various performance apsects of ADO 2 for the Wrox Press book, ADO 2 Programmers Reference.

This utility is entirely free, and comes with no warranties or guarantees of fitness of purpose.  It is simply a bunch of routines put together to help perform some analysis in the speed of various apsects of ADO.

The code is fairly well commented, so there is no separate documentation on how the code works.

Controls
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The file dialog used is not the standard VB file dialog, but the free one supplied by the Common Controls Replacement Project.  These guys are doing great work, providing free, enhanced version of VB controls.  I recommend you check out their work and support them where you can.  You can find them at http://www.mvps.org/ccrp/.

Test Database
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The supplied Access database, adoperf.mdb, is initially empty.  This saves download time.  There is a code module supplied that will fill the tables for you.  It's not very sophisticated, or fast, but it does the job fine.

For SQL Server database, there is a ReadMe file under the SQL directory to explain.  As with the Access database, there's a stored procedure to create the data, but again it's not particularly fast.  If you can't be bothered to wait, and have a fast enough connection, you can download the data to bcp in.  There's a batch file that will do all of this for you.  Note, however, that the database is not created automatically.  The sql script will create the tables, but not the database.

Logging Database
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The performance statistics are written to a database.  Currently this is an Access database, perflog.mdb, but there is no reason why this couldn't be any other type, as long as the table is the same.

Installation
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There is no installation procedure.  Just unzip and away you go.