Microsoft must love new database technologies. They've created a whole alphabet soup of technologies, making it hard for any developer to keep up. Some older technologies, such as Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) are very much alive and in common use today. Others, such as Remote Data Objects (RDO), appear in older applications, but almost no one uses them for new applications.
Plus, database access techniques also change. The two common access techniques in Visual Studio today are Datasets and objects.
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