What do the ASP.NET Universal Providers enable that the default sql providers don't?

Question

Inside the readme file of the ASP.NET Universal providers NuGet package is this quote

The SqlMembershipProvider, SqlRoleProvider, SqlProfileProvider c

Answer 1

the universal providers enable you to use asp.net membership system on sqlazure and also make the implementation sql agnostic. you can take the same app using universal providers and change the datasource to be sql server/sqlexpress/sqlce/localdb etc