I've been doing some VERY BASIC reading of ADO.NET 2.0, but I've not been able to find an answer to this question: (which leads me to believe it's assumed to be a general knowledge understanding that ...

The latest version of Microsoft's flagship database, SQL Server 2005, introduces an enormous number of enhancements to the product's security, scalability, performance, and programmability features.

Microsoft last week talked up the release of a bridge designed to let Java developers utilize Microsoft's ADO.NET Data Services. Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge, an established supplier of .NET to Java ...