Showes how to use data shaping to return a recordset as an element of another recordset. This article discusses some of the more advanced options concerning data shaping: namely, how to have multiple children and grandchildren....
Our last article on data shaping introduced you to the basics, with a few applications. This time we'll talk about reshaping, and explore the topic of a hierarchical file system in a bit more depth. As always, we even give you the code....
Data shaping is a little known feature of ADO 2.0 and above that allows you to create hierarchical recordsets, which can give you tremendous power over manipulating and displaying data....