Search the Internet to find various tools and technologies that help create front-end applications, and determine the methods and technologies they use to connect to the back-end database. Pay special attention to SQL and XML in your research.
Based on your research, answer the following questions in your OWN words:
- Why are data connectivity technologies required? What are their functions?
- Describe the functions of SQL and XML.
Search for information on the following technologies and describe them (and what they are used for) in your own words. Also, discuss any similarities between these technologies. Finally, if you had to come up with a name that could be used to group these technologies, what would it be?
- Object Linking and Embedding, Database (OLE DB)
- Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
- Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
- ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
- ADO.NET