TABLE 1: How ODBC and OLE DB Interpret Common Terms
Term	ODBC	OLE DB
Data source	A relational DBMS	A module that wraps a data store and exposes its content as a set of rows and columns
Table	A table in a relational database	An aggregation of related rows and homogeneous columns
Result set	A chunk of client memory that holds a set of records	An independent and stand-alone module that exposes a set of records
Command	A SQL command interpreted by the connected DBMS	A text string that the data source can understand