Working with the OLEDB Data Provider
This next section gives you a brief introduction to using the OLEDB data provider. One of the main goals of data providers is to provide a standardized, unified method of access to differing types of data. As a result, the way you use the OLEDB data provider is extremely similar to the way in which you use any other valid data provider for the .NET Framework. As a result, this section focuses mainly on the differences between the two providers, rather than how they are alike.
Overview of the OLEDB Data Provider
The OLEDB provider is a set of classes that provides a managed wrapper around an OLEDB data source. Unlike the SQL Server Data Provider, which only connects to a single type of server, the OLEDB provider ...
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