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You can download SQL Server 2008 Native Client here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6C3E9EF-BA29-4A43-8D69-A2BED18FE73C&displaylang=en You can download SQL Server 2005 Native Client from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=536fd7d5-013f-49bc-9fc7-77dede4bb075&displaylang=e
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The SQL Server Connection Director is a feature in Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP. However, Microsoft has already decided that this feature will not be included in the final version of these products. Please do not use this feature
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Dear SQL Server developers and users: It is this time of the year when we in the SQL Connectivity product team take a step back, review the priorities and goals for the long term and identify areas that will benefit from investments. We view YOU and your
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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-2008-r2.aspx
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(Anton Klimov, a developer on the SQL Server Native Client team, wrote the following article.) Connection strings for an OLE DB provider is a concept that causes a lot of confusion. One problem is that OLE DB itself does not define connection string as
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Hi, My name is David Schwartz and I own the documentation for SQL Server Native Client and Windows (formerly Microsoft) Data Access Components. Are there sections in the documentation that don't meet your needs? I'm interested to know your thoughts on
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ODBC 3.8 is in beta 1 of the Windows 7 SDK... And beta 1 of the Windows 7 SDK is now available on http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a91dc12a-fc94-4027-b67e-46bab7c5226c&DisplayLang=en ODBC 3.8 includes new features such as ยท
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The SQL Server Native Client team at Microsoft is accepting applications for the position of program manager. For more information about this position, see: http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=F9C9E835-AB77-449C-9E6B-732AFD1A7EAB
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Earlier this week Microsoft release a PHP driver for SQL Server. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=61BF87E0-D031-466B-B09A-6597C21A2E2A&displaylang=en Documentation is available online at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc296221.aspx
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In general we recommend against configuring a deployed application to use a new version of SQL Native Client (SNAC) unless the application developer has certified that the application has been tested with the version of SNAC in question. This is because
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack RC0, June 2008 is now available for download from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=110393 This includes the standalone installer for SQL Server 2008 Native Client (SNAC10). The Feature Pack also includes a
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In SQL Server 2008, the x64 and Itanium versions of sqlncli.msi will install the 64-bit and 32-bit versions of SQL Server Native Client. The x86 version of sqlncli.msi will only work on 32-bit Windows operating systems and will install the 32-bit version
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(The content of this entry was developed by Anton Klimov, a software engineer on the SQL Server Native Client team.) Table-valued, user-defined functions (TVF) can be used as an alternative to views or stored procedures. ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191165.aspx
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The SQL Server Customer Service and Support (CSS) group developed a new a more efficient way for you to get SQL Server 2005 hot fixes. For more information on hot fixes and cumulative updates, see http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2008/04/25/sql-server-2005-sp3-and-self-service-hotfixes.aspx
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The setup for CTP6 of SQL Server 2008 does not install sqlncli.h in the SDK\Include directory. This is a bug in the CTP6 setup. To get sqlncli.h in the SDK\Include directory, you need to invoke Setup\sqlncli.msi from the directory where you ran setup.exe
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