A file data source is one that is local to a single computer.

More Questions from ODBC, OLE DB, ADO, and ASP

• A OLE DB collection is an object that contains a group of other objects.
• An OLE DB rowset is equivalent to a cursor.
• OLE DB has two types of data providers: tabular data providers and service providers.
• An abstraction is a generalization of something.
• ODBC conformance levels specify which SQL statements, expressions, and data types a driver can process.
• The process of defining a system data source name involves specifying the type of driver and the identity of the database to be processed.
• ADO overlies the more complex OLE DB model, and can be called for scripting languages but not programming languages.

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