Can you do ADO through the API?

I know how do use ADO normally in visual basic. I am wondering if there is a way to do it faster, perhaps through the usage of API calls?

I'm hitting the database mad silly fast and need to squeeze every drop of performance out. (please spare me the 'if performance is an issue why are you using VB?')

It must be done in VB

=)

thanks!

would it make sense to write a small program in C++ to do my database access, compile into a .DLL and call it from VB?

would i see any significant speed increase?

im thinking the speed of this may be dependant on the type of the database itself, and the load on it at the time oh and the specs of the database server.. hmmm...