Briefs

March 23, 2001, Redmond, WA. In order to leverage the effort of ISVs to
build data mining providers, Microsoft is now shipping the data mining
sample provider with source code. The sample code includes the
complete implementation of an aggregated provider as well as the
following:

	All required OLE DB objects, such as session, command, and rowset
	The OLE DB for Data Mining syntax parser
	Tokenization of input data
	Query processing engine
	A sample Na�ve Bayes algorithm
	Model archiving in XML and binary formats

Based on the sample provider, ISVs can now easily build their own data
mining providers by adding new algorithms. To build the sample provider,
you must acquire a Visual Parse++ license and software from SandStone
Technology. If you do not obtain this license, you can still use the
sample provider, but you will have to implement the OLE DB for Data
Mining syntax parser.
Detail information is available at
http://www.microsoft.com/data/oledb/DMResKit.htm