Microsoft said that future SQL Server APIs will phase out of OLE DB and back to supporting the Open Database Connectivity protocol.

Denali will be the final edition of SQL Server to support OLE DB, because Microsoft considers ODBC to be the industry standard for relational data access.

Service Pack 3 contain updates for certain database components, these include, the data engine; database client utilities, such as SQL Server Enterprise Manager; and database client connectivity ...

Connecting with OLE DB Services Often the fastest and easiest way to connect to a data provider is by using OLE DB Services. Examples of data providers include Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, ...

In the test environment (2 IIS web servers, 1 SQL server, 1 IIS Utility server) none of our DB-driven apps are working. We cannot figure out the issue, but we think that MDAC is hosed.

OLEDB:: is required to distinguish special queries from regular queries schema-rowset is the specific schema rowset that is being called. All valid schema rowsets are listed under the IDBSchemaRowset ...