What is Data Provider

Question

Describe the work of Data provider and it's type.

Sandeep Singh Shekhawat · Answer

Data Provider is set of classes. These classes are used for connecting to Database, executing commands and get results. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a6cd7c08.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/dd363565.aspx

Vithal Wadje · Answer

neha madam data provider refres to everyone not only refres to DBMS, means their are diiffrent type data providers for .net framework and also for other like java

Shivanand Arur · Answer

May be these links might help u out... http://vb.net-informations.com/ado.net-dataproviders/ado.net-dataproviders-tutorial.htm http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a6cd7c08.aspx http://docs.openlinksw.com/mt/dotnet.html http://www.startvbdotnet.com/ado/default.aspx H o p e these links help u out.... Please mark any of the answers as accepted, if it helped u. Thank you... :)

Neha Sharma · Answer

Hi, Data Provider refers to DBMS.

Satyapriya Nayak · Answer

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