[AccessD] OLE DB being retired

Charlotte Foust charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Sun Sep 11 19:44:27 CDT 2011


Don't break your arm patting your back!  ADODB was a wonderful introduction
to ADO.Net.

Charlotte Foust

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>wrote:

> I must be psychic.  That's four in a row where I made the right decision
> not to follow MS up a
> blind alley  <g>
>
> I stayed with DAO instead of ADODB
> I stayed away from ADPs
> I stayed away from DAPs
> I stayed with ODBC/Native Client instead of OLEDB
>
> (actually 5 if you include .Net <g>)
>
> --
> Stuart
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> On 11 Sep 2011 at 10:03, Mark Simms wrote:
>
> > Just when you thought the craziness at MSFT had stopped:
> >
> > Rohan Lam, the Program Manager for SQL Server Connectivity, has
> > officially stated that the next version of SQL Server,Denali, will be
> > the last that will support OLE DB. The SQL Server OLE DB provider will
> > then be deprecated in favour of SQL Server Native Client ODBC. In
> > seven years' time OLE DB will be a dead, unsupported technology for
> > SQL Server. What does one read into this remarkable handbrake-turn?
> > Microsoft still publishes White Papers exhorting us to abandon ODBC in
> > favour of OLE DB. Is it is now time to abandon OLE DB?
> >
> > www.sqlservercentral.com
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