SIBPROvider is an OLE DB provider for Interbase and Firebird. SIBPROvider implements a great group of the interfaces defined by OLE DB specification. It is through the technology OLE DB that a lot of applications are connected to database. However, few applications use the OLE DB interfaces directly. It is common the use of a encapsulation layer to abstract the complexity of the OLE DB interfaces. So, OLE DB providers are used usually through ADO or ADOX.

SIBPROvider Features:

Support for ADOX

Speed and stability

Connection Pooling

Schema caching

Low memory requirements

Resource pooling

Better support for binary fields and memos

Support for storage objects as: ISequentialStream and IStream

Rich and precise schema information

It works perfectly using Delphi, ASP, Visual Basic, ColdFusion and Visual Studio.NET

It really supports cursors Foward Only and Static at server side

Perfect support for numeric fields

Several properties to monitor and adjust configuration of Interbase/Firebird

Refined transaction control

Simplified use, deployment and configuration

Support to several interfaces of the OLE DB specification

Support total to the Update, Delete and AddNew methods of Recordset and RowSet.