Hello Richard,
1. You need an ITypeResolver instance in order to retrieve the correct CLR Type based on a given SQL Type. In order to achieve this goal you need to add the following code snippet to your application:
2. The
Telerik.OpenAccess.Metadata.Backend enumeration declares the names of all supported backends in OpenAccess ORM. You could retrieve a list with backend names based on this enumeration type.
3. You need to be aware of the underlying database only when you want to execute operations against it - schema reader, query execution, schema migration, ect.
4. I am afraid that currently we do not provide such documentation.
5.
Teradata is not on our to-do list. If this is important to you, please feel free to add an entry to our
Ideas & Feedback portal.
Kind regards,
Damyan Bogoev
the Telerik team
Q3'12 SP1 of OpenAccess ORM packs Multi-Table Entities mapping support.
Check it out.