Microsoft Universal Data Access Platform
José A. Blakeley, Michael J. Pizzo
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
+1 425 936 5477
{joseb,mikep}@microsoft.com
Microsoft Universal Data Access defines a platform for developing multi-tier enterprise applications that require efficient access to diverse relational or non-relational data sources across intranets or the Internet. Universal Data Access consists of a collection of software components that interact with each other using system-level interfaces defined by OLE DB and providing an application-level data access model called ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). This talk provides an overview of the platform.
Data access and manipulation, OLE DB, ADO, ODBC, Database extensibility, Component databases, OLAP, Spatial