OLE DB is Microsoft's response to the object-relational database (ORDB) hybrid sometimes called a universal server. Several vendors have adopted the universal server approach. Oracle's Universal Server supplies information from its database in a...
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The many versions of SQL Server 7.0 can be confusing, so we thought a brief marketing-free summary might be helpful to readers. We begin at the high end with SQL Server 7.0 Enterprise Edition, which works only if you've installed Windows NT Server...
ActiveX Data Object (ADO) is Microsoft's latest data access object model. ADO 2.0 and Microsoft Data Access Component (MDAC) 2.0 are part of Microsoft's Universal Data Access (UDA) strategy...
Q: SQL Server 6.5 Service Pack 4 (SP4) won't install on my system. I downloaded it three times, so I know the problem is not a corrupt file. Do you have a solution?
Here's what Neil Pike, a Microsoft Valua...
