Introduction

The Feature Data Objects (FDO) API provides access to data in a data store. A provider is a specific implementation of the FDO API that provides access to data in a particular data store. The FDO Provider for SQL Server provides FDO with access to a Microsoft SQL Server-based data store.

SQL Server provides comprehensive data support, along with spatial indexing, optimistic concurrency, and read-committed transaction isolation. It uses a revision number for optimistic concurrency.

SQL Server authentication is supported for SQL Server data stores. The FDO User is mapped to the SQL Server login. Grant access to the databases whose data you want to use.

A SQL Server schema can support the following:

When you create a SQL Server schema, the following restrictions apply:

For decimal properties, precision must be between 1 and 38 inclusive and scale must be between 0 and 38 inclusive.

For more information, see The Essential FDO and the FDO Developer's Guide.