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Difference between ODBC and OLEDB

What is the difference between ODBC and OLEDB?

First, let us take a look at ODBC.

ODBC

ODBC stands for Open Data Base Connectivity, which is a connection method to data sources.

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Return On Investment (ROI)

Return on Investment (ROI) is a traditional financial measure similar to Return on Equity (ROE) that is used to measure corporation's profitability that reveals how much profit a company generates with the money and other sources from investors.

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Return On Equity (ROE)

Return On Equity (ROE) is an accounting method similar to Return on Investment (ROI) that is used as a measure of a corporation's profitability that reveals how much profit a company generates with the money raised from shareholders.

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Free Cash Flow (FCF)

Free Cash Flow (FCF) is the amount of cash that a company has left over after it has paid all of its expenses, including investments. It is the cash that a company is able to generate after laying out the money required to maintain or expand its asset base.

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UNIX

UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs. 

Today's UNIX systems are split into various branches, developed over time by various commercial vendors and non-profit organizations.

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Windows Media Player cannot play DVD

Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer

You get this error message if you try to play a DVD on a computer with Windows Media Player that has not been upgraded to play DVDs. Your computer is missing so called DVD decoder.

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Tracert

Tracert is a Windows based command-line tool that you can use to trace the path that an Internet Protocol (IP) packet takes from a source to its destination. Tracert will determine the path taken to the destination.

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Microprocessor

A processor is the logic circuitry that responds to and processes the basic instructions that drive a computer.

The term processor has generally replaced the term central processing unit (CPU) that has been used in early generations of computers. The processor in a personal computer or embedded in small devices is often called a microprocessor.

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Pathping

Pathping is a TCP/IP based utility that provides useful information about network latency and network loss at intermediate hops between a source address and a destination address.

It is a Windows based command-line tool is similar to the tracert tool in a sense that it traces the path that an Internet Protocol (IP) packet takes from a source to its destination.

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Time to Live (TTL)

Time-to-Live (TTL) is a value in an Internet Protocol (IP) packet that tells a network router whether or not the packet has been in the network too long and should be discarded.

In other words, it specifies the number of router hops the packet is yet allowed to travel before it must be discarded or returned.

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