Today, we are happy to announce availability of new Microsoft ODBC Drivers for SQL Server on Windows and for SQL Server on Linux. Introducing the new Microsoft ODBC Drivers for SQL Server As outlined in a previouspost , Microsoft is adopting ODBC as the de-facto standard for native access to SQL...

This has been re-posted from the SQL Server Team Blog . In our continued commitment to interoperability, we are very excited to announce the availability of a preview release of the SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux! This release will allow native developers to access Microsoft SQL Server from Linux...

Greetings Developer community: We heard yesterday and today at the PASS conference about the exciting new areas that we are investing in bringing the power of SQL Server to our customers. Many of our developers who rely on native connectivity to SQL Server primarily use ODBC for their connectivity...

In the Feb. 2010 blog post, “ Using SQL Server Client APIs with SQL Azure Version 1.0 ”, Steve Hale provided details regarding similarities and differences to watch out for when developing an application with SQL Azure. In this post, the focus is on tips of resolving issues once the application...

We’re excited to announce that Denali SNAC CTP1 adds support for the ODBC 3.8 features of the Microsoft ODBC DM (Driver Manager) introduced in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Please refer to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/data/archive/2009/07/06/odbc-dm-3-80-in-windows-7-and-windows-server-2008...

So, you've heard about some new ODBC features that were introduced in Windows 7 beta and you wanna know more about it. There's a great blog posting on our sister blog site describing the features. Please go to http://blogs.msdn.com/data/archive/2009/07/06/odbc-dm-3-80-in-windows-7-and-windows-server...

Welcome! In this blog you will find posts about Microsoft SQL Server Native Client, or SQL Native Client for short. This is the component that provides ODBC and OLE DB support for Microsoft SQL Server from SQL Server 2005 onwards. I'll get the ball rolling with a FAQ about native data access for...

Native Data Access for SQL Server 2005 FAQ In SQL Server 2005 Microsoft decided to change the way it supports ODBC and OLE DB with the introduction of Microsoft SQL Server Native Client (SQL Native Client), a new component of SQL Server 2005. This FAQ answers some basic questions about SQL Native Client...

Introducing SQL Native Client [This was originally posted on the DataWorks blog which is now suspended] By now you may have heard of a new data access technology called “SQL Native Client” that will ship with SQL Server 2005. But before we go much further in discussing it, let’s be clear about...

Getting started with SQL Native Client [Chris Lee] [This was originally posted on the DataWorks blog which is now suspended] As Acey Bunch explained in April , SQL Native Client meets the needs of developers wanting to take advantage of new features in SQL Server 2005 from ADO, ODBC and OLE DB...

Using MARS with SQL Native Client [Chris Lee] [This was originally posted on the DataWorks blog which is now suspended] As stated in my previous post , the majority of new features available through SQL Native Client are accessed by connection or statement properties. MARS is about the simplest...