Benchmarks: Managed Provider vs. OleDb Provider for Oracle 9i

A new article on MSDN presents some benchmark results comparing the .NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle with the OLE DB provider when interacting with an Oracle 9i database. [System.Error.Emit]

Woah. That's a staggeringly huge difference. For anyone out there that is or is going to be backending their system with Oracle 9i, there's no question that you should used the managed provider and avoid OleDb like the plague. :)