The primary difference, philosophically, is that OLE DB can query information sources that are not databases, while ODBC is restricted to databases.
>Can someone explainme the difference between
>Microsoft OLE DB provider for ODBC driver
>
>and
>
>Msdatashape
>
>both were found when i create a datalink
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