This section of the OLE DB Programmer's Guide describes the functional advantages of using OLE DB for consistent data access performance across diverse data stores and also provides an in-depth discussion of the primary OLE DB objects, data types, properties, and important programming considerations. This section contains the following chapters:

• Overview of OLE DB

• Data Source and Session Objects

• Commands

• Rowsets

• Updating Data in Rowsets

• Getting and Setting Data

• BLOBs and COM Objects

• Binder Objects and Direct Binding

• Row and Stream Objects

• Index Rowsets

• Integrated Indexes

• OLE DB Object Notifications

• Data Types in OLE DB

• Properties

• Transactions

• Errors

• Asynchronous Processing

• Programming Considerations

• OLE DB 64-Bit Information

• OLE DB Security Best Practices

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