These components provide the developer with an API through which they can implement data access operations. The products vary according to the types of database (SQL Srrver, Oracle, MySQL, MS Access, BDE) , the types of access (Admin, User, programmatic, visual) and the mechanism (ODBC, JDBC, ADO, JET etc).

ActiveX Database APIs & Connectivity Components by Red-Gate Software

SQL Toolkit V7.0

Automate all your SQL Server database comparison and synchronization tasks – the SQL Toolkit gives you access to the APIs behind our SQL comparison and synchronization tools.

ActiveX Database APIs & Connectivity Components by Devart

dbExpress V4.2

dbExpress is database-independent layer that defines a common interface to provide fast access to SQL database servers. For each supported server, dbExpress provides a driver as an independent library that implements the common dbExpress interfaces for processing queries and stored procedures.

ActiveX Database APIs & Connectivity Components by Kadmos

IXF ActiveX Control V1.67 -  IXF ActiveX Control is an ActiveX component that allows to import and export legacy IBM S/390 DB2 tables to/from modern relational database. With this control your OCX enabled development environment (Visual Basic, Access, C++, , etc.) can read directly the data coming from mainframes without writing any host-side or special interface programs. It can be used to convert a DB2 database to a new database directly within your application.