[AccessD] OLE DB being retired

Stuart,

 Were actually on the same page<g>.  I use ADO and ADP's a bit, but for the
most part I have stayed away from them and never really moved to ADO at all.
I still use DAO for just about everything (if I can get away with it).

  I've also stayed away from .Net, but it looks like I'm going to pay for
that one having at least 15 years yet to retirement. 

  Access doesn't seem like it's going to hang on (for me) that long with the
likes of Lightswitch and it's wholesale move to the web.  It has too little
focus on producing desktop apps anymore, which I suppose is a sign of the
times.

Jim. 

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 05:59 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OLE DB being retired

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


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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