The Advantage OLE DB Provider is a high performance OLE DB provider that provides native data access to the Advantage Database Server and Advantage Local Server directly, via ADO, or via ADO.NET. The Advantage OLE DB Provider creates a seamless interface between the Advantage Database Server or Advantage Local Server and any development environment that can use ADO, ADO.NET, or OLE DB directly including Visual Basic, Access, Visual C++, Delphi, C++Builder, Visual FoxPro, and Visual Studio.NET. The Advantage OLE DB Provider enables easy and reliable access to business-critical data for local, peer-to-peer, client/server, distributed, and Web-based applications.
| • | Provides native client/server access to the high performance Advantage Database Server RDBMS |
| • | Provides fast, native access to the Advantage Local Server for royalty-free distribution in local and peer-to-peer environments |
| • | Supports SQL commands via Advantage SQL engine with both the Advantage Database Server and Advantage Local Server |
| • | Requires no other database engines (Jet, MSDE, BDE, ODBC, etc.) |
| • | Supports ADO.NET via the OLE DB .NET Data Provider |
| • | Includes full server-based transaction processing to eliminate database corruption, drastically minimizing support costs |
| • | Provides complete referential integrity support including primary/foreign key definition and cascaded updates and deletes |
| • | Includes database security functionality and encryption support |
| • | Designed for use with Visual Basic, Access, Visual C++, Delphi, C++Builder, Visual Studio.NET and other development environments that provide data access via ADO, ADO.NET or OLE DB |
| • | Works seamlessly with ADO and ADO.NET data-aware components for rapid application development |
| • | Ships with support for direct Advantage access via low-level Advantage Client Engine API functions |
