It makes setting up connection easy, fast or maybe even easier than usual DBMS's! No code necessary at all for some of it (it just works sometimes!), so no headache about missing functions needed in your programming language either!. At least not yet I think there is one that did come with PHP-ODB but couldn't be found afterwards when i re looked into php documentation again later to include this. Well worth using if possible as long its available through their repos;-) Not too expensive/expensive compared other free softwares out therne like Sybase PowerBuilder etc., which are also great alternatives and very good ones anyway and have proven themselves over years by being used around here ;). Being an old skool programmer myself who was always looking back fondly upon those ancient times while writing DDL stuff from scripts via oledb connections - well now we can look forward once more :D I like that it's very well organized, with many functions already created for me so it is extremely easy to use. The documentation could be better, but overall this was an excellent product. It allowed us to connect our SQL server databases without needing to write any code at all! This helped our business immensely by allowing our staff to continue using Excel as they had been doing before we started using this software.