Additional Data Providers
There are more data providers than just the two just covered. The beauty of the data provider system is that the interfaces required to implement a data provider are part of the .NET Framework itself. This means that any vendor that wants to create a managed wrapper around their own data source can do so quickly and easily using the established interfaces and guidelines for data access. As a result, many different providers have popped up and more are appearing every day.
The Oracle .NET Data Provider (ODP.NET)
Oracle has created its own managed provider that exposes all the Oracle client functionality that you might expect, as well as some extra bonuses such as the ability to use cursors as parameters to stored procedures ...
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