>>Paul,
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>>Thanks for the input. Actually I had the enum in there, but I pulled it because I think I'm going to do an enaum for DB type, SQL, Access, MySql, ect, then determine internally which provider to use. I will also dynamically configure the connection string.
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>>This way, all I have to do is set DBType, ServerName, DBName, UserName and Password and the class will do the rest.
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>>What do you think?
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>Sounds reasonable to me. One thing you might also want to consider supporting is integrated authentication (eg. no username/password is passed, it authenticates using the current users credentials).

Do you know if you can specify encrypt = 'yes' in connection string with integrated security? I got some strange error when I tried to add it into my connection string.