Loren,
LiveCycle Designer has the ability to bind the fields in a form design to a data source and this data source can be a database.
OLEDB is the only database connection that you can connect to from LiveCycle Designer. Through the use of the Microsoft OLEDB Provider for ODBC Drivers, you can also access databases identified by the ODBC data source name (DSN). You can use OLE drivers other than the Microsoft OLEDB Provider for ODBC, however the form must be certified in Acrobat before it will function at run time.
For more information on connecting to a database consult the online help included with LiveCycle Designer.
Denver Green
Adobe Enterprise Support