Visual Basic Bookmark - OLE DB resources . OLE DB is Microsoft's strategic low-level interface to data across the organization. OLE DB is an open specification designed to build on the success of ODBC by providing an open standard for accessing all kinds of data. Hopefully this roadmap will explain how data access technologies fit into the picture of client-server, Web and distributed computing.
Many people find OLE DB confusing.
Contains a short sample program. This article presents a summary of the technologies for Microsoft's database technologies. OLE DB is a set of OLE interfaces that provide applications with uniform access to data stored in diverse information sources, regardless of location or type. These interfaces allow data sources to share their data through common interfaces without having to implement database functionality not native to the datastore. Some people have been hearing that ODBC is being dropped in favor of OLE while others see them as separate and complementary technologies.