Provider Choices
A provider is software used for accessing various data stores in a consistent manner conforming to a specification, such as OLE DB. A provider may contain an API. Clients that use providers are known as consumers. SMSS and SQLCMD, for example, are consumers of the SNAC OLE DB provider.
You can choose from the following providers:
• SQL Native Client OLE DB provider—This is the latest OLE DB provider, and it is built into SNAC; it is also known as SQLNCLI. COM applications might want to switch to this provider to access the latest functionality; doing so also provides access to SQL Server 7 and 2000 databases.
• .NET Framework data provider for SQL Server—This data provider is built in to the System.Data.SqlClient namespace in ...
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