OLE DB Consumer Templates: A Programmer's Guide (Paperback)

Microsoft's OLE DB can enable universal data integration over an enterprise network, from mainframe to desktop, regardless of data type. It's the fundamental COM building block for Microsoft's database connectivity strategy. But many developers have found OLE DB's complexity daunting -- until now. With OLE DB consumer templates, Microsoft has created a high-performance C++ library that sits atop OLE DB, enabling any experienced C++ developer to harness OLE DB's power far more easily. With this book -- the first on the subject -- C++ developers have all the guidance and example code they need to use OLE DB consumer templates in state-of-the-art, scalable, manageable enterprise database applications. From start to finish, this book is designed to help Visual C++ developers quickly get up to speed with OLE DB and its consumer templates. In Part I, Pierre Nallet introduces the technologies and the basic concepts underlying them; next, he reviews the key elements of OLE DB templates, showing how to use them for a broad range of "typical" problems. Finally, in Part III, he presents advanced OLE DB consumer template techniques addressing binary large objects (BLOBs), transactions, indexes, schema, hierarchical data, and more. Along the way, Nallet also introduces a new library of OLE DB extensions designed to make the technology even more powerful. For all Visual C++ programmers who want to make more effective use of Microsoft's OLE DB technologies.