Supported Interfaces of the Persistence Provider

Provides methods for accessor management. For information about accessors, see "Accessors" in Chapter 6 of the OLE DB Progammer's Reference.

Allows consumers to manage chapters.

Exposes information about columns of a rowset or prepared command and provides a limited set of information in an array.

Supplies complete information about columns in a rowset. Its methods can be called from a rowset or a command.

Support is dependent on available stream schema information.

Mandatory on commands, rowsets, and index rowsets, giving information about the availability of type conversions on a command or rowset.

Creates a new session.

Initializes or uninitializes a data source object or an enumerator.

Sets and gets values of properties on the data source object or enumerator and gets information about all properties supported by the provider.

Mandatory; obtains an interface pointer to the data source object.

Opens and returns a rowset that includes all rows from a single base table or index.

See IPersist* Objects for an overall discussion.

See Getting and Setting IPersist* Objects for specific implementation notes.

For additional considerations, see Lifetime of IPersist* Objects and IPersist* Objects, Rowset Update Semantics, and ITransaction.

(All sources are in the OLE DB Programmer's Reference.)

Provides information about a rowset and methods for retrieving objects associated with the rowset.

Base rowset interface, providing methods for fetching rows sequentially, getting the data from those rows, and managing rows.

GetOriginalData and GetRowStatus are supported. All others return E_NOTIMPL.

IRowsetUpdate::GetOriginalData gets the data most recently fetched from or transmitted to the data store; does not get values based on pending changes.

IRowsetUpdate::GetRowStatus returns the status of rows.

Mandatory for sessions. Returns information about the properties a session supports and the current settings of those properties.

Defined by Automation and indicates whether a specific interface can return Automation error objects.