Definitions for "OLEDB"
Object Linking and Embedding Database (OLEDB) is a Microsoft strategic low-level interface to data across the organization. OLEDB is an open specification designed to build on the success of ODBC by providing an open standard for accessing all kinds of data.
This is data-access provider that is used to communicate with a database through ASP scripting. OLEDB is the fastest and most efficient way of communicating with a database under Microsoft Windows(tm). It bypasses ODBC in order to eliminate the overhead it adds which reduces performance.