[AccessD] Access 2010 Native client mystery solved

Doug Murphy dw-murphy at cox.net
Tue Feb 28 11:05:46 CST 2012


< Anyway, AFAICT it is not safe to use native client in Access if you plan
to distribute the FE to workstations (most cases?).>

Is there a security issue with the Native Client? Do you have a reference?

Doug

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Subject: [AccessD] Access 2010 Native client mystery solved

I just attempted to create a new DSN directly in Access 2010 on my new test
VM and guess what?  No "Native Client" driver selectable for Access 2010 on
that machine.  Yesterday I was reading that the native driver client is
installed when you install SQL Server, thus it appears (if I am reading this
right) that you can only use the native client driver if you have
intentionally installed the driver on a given workstation.

How silly would that be?  One would think it would be part of the Access
installation package.

Anyway, AFAICT it is not safe to use native client in Access if you plan to
distribute the FE to workstations (most cases?).

I for one am defaulting to the "SQL Server" driver from here on out.

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John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

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