07-20-2023, 11:59 AM
I often hear things like "Can we load our employee info using LDAP?" Yet, the title "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol" makes me think of it as a protocol rather than a physical database management system like Oracle or MSSQL.
So could someone please explain to me what LDAP is, how it's used, and how it basically works? Is LDAP simply a standard protocol for extracting data from a variety of DBMSs? In an architecture diagram, would LDAP be simply an arrow drawn between the DB and the application server?
So could someone please explain to me what LDAP is, how it's used, and how it basically works? Is LDAP simply a standard protocol for extracting data from a variety of DBMSs? In an architecture diagram, would LDAP be simply an arrow drawn between the DB and the application server?