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[Acronym] for __L__ightweight __D__irectory __A__ccess __P__rotocol.
-A protocol for accessing heirachial
data. Kinda like [SQL] except it has "fixed" Schema's (you can define your own, but not quite as easily as you do in [SQL]).
+A protocol for accessing heirachical
data. Kinda like [SQL] except it has "fixed" Schema's (you can define your own, but not quite as easily as you do in [SQL]) and it's for [HierarchicalDataBase]s rather than [RelationalDataBase]s
.
-[LDAP] is
(often) optimised for reading data, not read/write, so it's often used for directories.
+[LDAP] implementations are
(often) optimised for reading data, not read/write, so it's often used for directories.
Netware's [NDS] speaks [LDAP], Microsofts ActiveDirectory speaks [LDAP]. It's just a protocol.
DanielLawson is our local [LDAP] guru. If you've got the problem, he's got the solution :)
