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Native Data Access APIs - ODBC and OLE DB - for SQL Server

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Date: 03/29/2019

This blog is in the process of being migrated to one of the new consolidated SQL Server and Azure...

Date: 03/04/2019

We are pleased to announce the release of version 18.2 of the Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL...

Date: 02/22/2019

We are pleased to announce an update to the Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server! Version 17.3 is...

Date: 02/22/2019

We are pleased to announce a technical preview of version 17.3 of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for...

Date: 09/24/2018

We are pleased to announce an update to the Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server!  Version 17.2...

Date: 07/11/2018

We are pleased to announce the release of version 18.1 of Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server!...

Date: 07/06/2018

We are pleased to announce an update to the Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server!  Version 17.1...

Date: 04/03/2018

We are pleased to announce the release of the Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server, as we had...

Date: 03/30/2018

How can you tell what version of TLS is currently used for client connections? Simple question we’ve...

Date: 02/21/2018

We are pleased to announce the release of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server! The updated...

Date: 02/13/2018

NOTE: the new release announcement is available here. Previously, Microsoft announced deprecation of...

Date: 10/06/2017

Hi all, we are delighted to share a servicing update of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 13.1 for Linux....

Date: 09/21/2017

The OLE DB Driver for SQL Server, or SQL Server Native Client OLE DB Provider, used to connect to...

Date: 08/15/2017

Hi all, we are delighted to share the servicing update of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 13.1 for...

Date: 06/30/2017

Hi all, we are delighted to share the Production Ready Release of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 13.1 for...

Date: 05/07/2017

Hi all, We are excited to announce the availability of the second preview for ODBC Driver 13.1 for...

Date: 03/15/2017

Let us know how we are doing on the ODBC Driver for SQL Server by taking our March Pulse Survey....

Date: 03/10/2017

Let us know how we are doing on the ODBC Driver for SQL Server by taking our monthly sentiment...

Date: 02/23/2017

Hi all As you must have seen we recently released a preview for the ODBC Driver on macOS. We will be...

Date: 02/08/2017

Hi all, we are delighted to share the Production Ready Release of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 13.1 for...

Date: 02/04/2017

Hi all, We are excited to announce the availability of the ODBC Driver 13.1 for macOS - Preview. The...

Date: 02/03/2017

Hi all, we are delighted to share the second preview release of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 13.1 for...

Date: 01/20/2017

Hi all, we are delighted to share the first preview release of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 13.1 for...

Date: 01/10/2017

Hi all, we are delighted to share the Production Ready release of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 13 for...

Date: 10/20/2016

Hi all, we are delighted to share the third early technical preview of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 13...

Date: 09/30/2016

Hi all, we are delighted to share the second early technical preview of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 13...

Date: 09/06/2016

We are pleased to announce the full release of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 13.1 for SQL Server! The...

Date: 08/01/2016

Today, we are happy to announce availability of new Microsoft ODBC Drivers for SQL Server on Windows...

Date: 01/23/2013

This has been re-posted from the SQL Server Team Blog. In our continued commitment to...

Date: 11/30/2011

Greetings Developer community: We heard yesterday and today at the PASS conference about the...

Date: 10/12/2011

Greetings to the Developer community: Thank you very much for an overwhelming response on our...

Date: 09/07/2011

EDIT (3/30/2018): OLE DB is now undeprecated. Read more about it here. ODBC is the de-facto industry...

Date: 08/29/2011

Greetings to the Developer community: Microsoft SQL Server team has been interacting on a regular...

Date: 08/19/2011

Greetings to the SQL Server community: Back around October 2009, we introduced the process of...

Date: 05/24/2011

In the Feb. 2010 blog post, “Using SQL Server Client APIs with SQL Azure Version 1.0”,...

Date: 11/30/2010

We’re excited to announce that Denali SNAC CTP1 adds support for the ODBC 3.8 features of the...

Date: 11/16/2010

Thank-you all for your active participation in our Fall 2010 customer survey. Due to your...

Date: 10/29/2010

Greetings to the SQL Server community: Last year in October 2009, we introduced the process of...

Date: 10/18/2010

The Microsoft SQL Server team is working on a portal page that brings together common resources and...

Date: 05/27/2010

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ceb4346f-657f-4d28-83f5-...

Date: 05/12/2010

Dear SQL Server developers and users The Microsoft SQL Server JDBC team is beginning to think of...

Date: 03/23/2010

Dear Colleague,The Microsoft SQL Server Connectivity team has received feedback indicating interest...

Date: 02/23/2010

This post describes some of the issues that the application developer should be aware of when...

Date: 02/12/2010

Dear SQL Server developers and users:It is this time of the year when we in the SQL Server Native...

Date: 01/16/2010

You can download SQL Server 2008 Native Client here:...

Date: 11/03/2009

The SQL Server Connection Director is a feature in Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and SQL Server 2008 R2...

Date: 10/19/2009

Dear SQL Server developers and users:It is this time of the year when we in the SQL Connectivity...

Date: 10/02/2009

So, you've heard about some new ODBC features that were introduced in Windows 7 beta and you wanna...

Date: 07/08/2009

(Anton Klimov, a developer on the SQL Server Native Client team, wrote the following article.)...

Date: 05/06/2009

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