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==Beginner UDA Questions==

===What do your ADO.NET Providers do?=== 

<nop>OpenLink's ADO.NET providers use a variety of means to provide ADO.NET data access to relational databases. These ADO.NET providers come in both Single-Tier and Multi-Tier formats and they exist for Windows and Mono platforms. At the time of writing, Mono is available for Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows.