Advantage of SQL Server .NET data provider

ADO.NET provides several different methods to access SQL Server data, including OLE DB.NET, ODBC.NET, SQLXML, and the SQL Server .NET data provider. Of all of these, the SQL Server .NET data provider is the fastest, as much as 30-40% faster than the others. The SQL Server .NET provider uses TDS (Tabular Data Stream, which is the native SQL Server data format) to communicate with SQL Server.