Programmers understand how to build business applications that exploit all the organization’s information resources-in whatever form and from wherever they reside in the enterprise-with Microsoft’s powerful OLE DB 2.0 technology. This kit packages complete information and tools to create universal data access for all Windows(r)- and Windows NT(r)-based systems. It explains how to expose data stores and extend full-blown DBMS functionality down to the reaches of personal or group databases, individual file systems, spreadsheets-even e-mail.