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Back in the days of classic ASP, if you were building a database-driven web site, your choice was either to invest a lot of money to get a copy of Microsoft SQL Server (or some other enterprise-ready database) or invest a lot of time finding a way to deal with the performance and scalability limitations of Microsoft Access. Luckily these days there's another viable alternative: MySQL.

ADOdb is a Database Abstraction Library for PHP (and Python). for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Firebird, Interbase,LDAP, Access, VFP, DB2 and many other databases