Introduction to HCL Informix OLE DB Provider
Microsoft OLE DB is a specification for a set of data access interfaces designed to enable various data stores to work together. OLE DB components are data providers, data consumers, and service components. Data providers own data and make it available to consumers. Each implementation of a provider is different, but they all expose their data in a tabular form through virtual tables. Data consumers use the OLE DB interfaces to access data.
You use HCL Informix® OLE DB Provider to enable client applications, such as ActiveX Data Object (ADO) applications and web pages, to access data on the Informix server.
Informix OLE
DB is a component of the HCL Informix Client
Software Development Kit.
Tip: This publication describes the characteristics of the HCL Informix OLE DB
Provider.
It does not describe the architecture of OLE DB providers in general
or how to program with OLE DB. For information about OLE DB architecture
and programming, go to the Microsoft website
(http://www.microsoft.com)
and search for "Introduction to OLE DB".