Microsoft and Oracle recently signed agreements that will make Oracle a first class data provider in .NET, putting it on par with SQL Server.
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>Microsoft made it much, much easier to talk to SQL than any other data source in the .Net platform. You are still able to talk to other data sources, but not with the ease that you can SQL. Their are actually special data objects in the .Net framework just for SQL...
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Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer