OLEDB is much faster than ODBC, In PowerBuilder, we can connect batabase through OLEDB, for example, to connect MS Access Database(.mdb):
string ls_dbname
ls_dbname = "c:/database.mdb"
SQLCA.DBMS = "OLE DB"
SQLCA.AutoCommit = False
SQLCA.DBParm = "PROVIDER='Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0',DATASOURCE='"+ls_dbname +"'"
connect using sqlca;