OLE DB
MICROSOFT API FOR UNIFORM ACCESS FROM HETEROGENEOUS DATA SOURCES
OLEDB; OLE-DB; OLE DB provider
OLE DB (Object Linking and Embedding, Database, sometimes written as OLEDB or OLE-DB), an API designed by Microsoft, allows accessing data from a variety of sources in a uniform manner. The API provides a set of interfaces implemented using the Component Object Model (COM); it is otherwise unrelated to OLE.