DB2 OLE DB Driver
Microsoft is now looking at moving from the ODBC standard for accessing databases and instead has developed a new OLE standard. The OLE standard encapsulates much of the functionality that ODBC provides but takes it one step further. The main purpose of the new standard is to provide access to any data, whether a relational DBMS, a spreadsheet, flat file, or even an email manages that data. Many ODBC vendors are starting off by supplying bridges from an OLE application to their ODBC drivers. DB2 has developed its own OLE driver known as the DB2 OLE DB driver.
OLE defines a set of standard interfaces through which an application can access the services of another (for example, the DB2 DBMS). Each interface defines a set of functions ...
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