<s>
Remote	B-Library
Data	I-Library
Services	I-Library
(	O
RDS	O
,	O
formerly	O
known	O
as	O
Advanced	B-Library
Data	I-Library
Connector	I-Library
or	O
ADC	O
)	O
is	O
an	O
older	O
technology	O
that	O
is	O
part	O
of	O
Microsoft	B-Application
SQL	I-Application
Server	I-Application
,	O
and	O
used	O
in	O
conjunction	O
with	O
ActiveX	B-Library
Data	I-Library
Objects	I-Library
(	O
ADO	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
RDS	O
allowed	O
the	O
retrieval	O
of	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
data	O
from	O
a	O
database	O
server	B-Application
,	O
which	O
the	O
client	O
then	O
altered	O
in	O
some	O
way	O
and	O
then	O
sent	O
back	O
to	O
the	O
server	B-Application
for	O
further	O
processing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
the	O
popular	O
adoption	O
of	O
Transact-SQL	B-Language
,	O
which	O
extends	O
the	O
SQL	O
programming	O
with	O
constructs	O
such	O
as	O
loops	O
and	O
conditional	B-Language
statements	O
,	O
RDS	O
became	O
less	O
necessary	O
and	O
it	O
was	O
eventually	O
deprecated	O
in	O
Microsoft	B-Library
Data	I-Library
Access	I-Library
Components	I-Library
version	O
2.7	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	O
produced	O
SOAP	B-Application
Toolkit	O
2.0	O
,	O
which	O
allows	O
clients	O
to	O
do	O
this	O
via	O
an	O
open	O
XML-based	O
standard	O
.	O
</s>
