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Advantage OLE DB Provider (for ADO): Full server-based transaction processing that eliminates database corruption and drastically minimizes support costs
The high-performance Advantage OLE DB Provider provides native access to the Advantage Database Server and the Advantage Local Server directly or via ADO. 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 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
Supports SQL commands with both the Advantage Database Server and Advantage Local Server
Requires no other database engines (Jet, MSDE, BDE, ODBC, etc.)
Provides complete referential integrity support, including primary/foreign key definition and cascaded updates and deletes
Includes database security functionality and encryption support
Triggers are available to provide a powerful means to maintain business rules at the database level — independent of the client application
Designed for use with Visual Basic, Access, Visual C++, Delphi, C++Builder and other development environments that provide data access via ADO or OLE DB
Ships with support for direct Advantage access via low-level Advantage Client Engine API functions