Contents Index The OLE DB and ADO Programming Interfaces Supported platforms

ASA Programming Guide
  The OLE DB and ADO Programming Interfaces

Introduction to OLE DB


OLE DB is a data access model from Microsoft. It uses the Component Object Model (COM) interfaces and, unlike ODBC, OLE DB does not assume that the data source uses a SQL query processor.

Adaptive Server Anywhere includes an OLE DB provider named ASAProv. This provider is available for current Windows and Windows CE platforms.

You can also access Adaptive Server Anywhere using the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC (MSDASQL), together with the Adaptive Server Anywhere ODBC driver.

Using the Adaptive Server Anywhere OLE DB provider brings several benefits:


Supported platforms
Distributed transactions

Contents Index The OLE DB and ADO Programming Interfaces Supported platforms