DB2 and Enterprise Library - what's the story?  @12:59:08 PM    
One of the great questions we got at the end of our webcast was whether DB2 can be used from the Enterprise Library. I wanted to clarify some of the things I said here. The EL does provide full support for DB2 - but through the IBM-supplied UDB 8.1.2 data provider - NOT the MsDb2Client managed provider you get with HIS 2004. One of the data access application block's goals is database transparency. achieved through a database factory pattern and as such as I mentioned you can use the higher-level classes in the data access application block in a database-agnostic way. However, you will have to create the DB2-specific classes to derive from DBCommandWrapper and Database in order to provide equivalent funcionality for the Microsoft DB2 provider to use this level of transparency.

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