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| • | OLE DB (sometimes written as OLEDB or OLE-DB), Object Linking and Embedding for Databases, is a means Microsoft use for accessing different types of data stores in a uniform manner. Microsoft has separated the data store from the application that needs access to it through the use of this technology: this was done because different applications need access to different types and sources of data and do not necessarily want to know how to access functionality with technology-specific methods. OLE DB is conceptually divided into consumers and providers. The consumers are the applications that need access to the data, and the provider is the software component that exposes an OLE DB interface through the use of the Component Object Model (or COM). OLE DB is part of the MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components) stack and is the database access interface technologys. MDAC is a group of Microsoft technologies that interact together as a framework that allows programmers a uniform and comprehensive way of developing applications for accessing almost any data store. OLE DB providers can be created to access such simple data stores as a text file or spreadsheet, through to such complex databases as Oracle and SQL Server. However, because different data store technology can have different capabilities, OLE DB providers may not implement every possible interface available to OLE DB. The capabilities that are available are implemented through the use of COM objects - an OLE DB provider will map the data store technologies functionality to a particular COM interface. Microsoft calls the availability of an interface to be "provider-specific" as it may not be applicable depending on the database technology involved. Additionally, however, providers may also augment the capabilities of a data store - these capabilities are known as services in Microsoft parlance. Source: [wikipedia: ole db] |
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