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What is the difference between database driver and data provider?

yash Singh652510-May-2011
What is the difference between database driver and data provider?
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Updated on 11-May-2011
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11-May-2011

Hi,

Driver is a program installed on a workstation or a server; it allows programs to interact with a Database Management System (DBMS). Such as, JDBC driver provides database connectivity through the standard JDBC application program interface (APIs) available in J2EE.

A data provider is a set of libraries that is used to communicate with data source. Such as, SQL data provider for SQL, Oracle data provider for Oracle, OLE DB data provider for access, excel and MySQL.

For more information about this please visit following link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a6cd7c08(v=VS.100).aspx

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