>>HI Craig, why (in a nutshell) is oledb not recommended?
From MSDN: "The commercial release of Microsoft SQL Server, codename “Denali,” will be the last release to support OLE DB... We encourage you to adopt ODBC in the development of your new and future versions of your application."
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlnativeclient/archive/2011/08/29/microsoft-is-aligning-with-odbc-for-native-relational-data-access.aspx
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
