Re: FUD!! ODBC will not be supported by Microsoft in the f

Yes, the SQL Server ODBC driver is one of the API's recommended by Microsoft
to write applications accessing SQL Server 2000. There are other API's also
available from Microsoft for accessing a SQL Server database. For the latest
information see Microsoft's web-site at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/bldgapps/ba
_highprog_3fg3.asp

See also information about programming ODBC SQL Server Applications at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odbcsql/od_
6_0oview_8sc3.asp

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Janet Borschowa
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Rogue Wave Software
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-----Original Message-----
From: Amanjit Gill [mailto:amanjit.gill@gmx.de]
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 10:15 AM
To: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ODBC] FUD!! ODBC will not be supported by Microsoft in the
future


Hi,
this might be actually offtopic, but its always time to fight FUD  :-)

> Microsoft will be doing away with the OLEDB to ODBC bridge in the near
> future.

Funny enough if I use __Microsoft__ SQL Query Analyzer which directly
connects to SQL Servers and somehow shut the SQL Server down while a query
running
I get the following message (german):
_________________________________________________________
Server: Nachr.-Nr. 17, Schweregrad 16, Status 1, Zeile 0
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Shared Memory]SQL Server existiert nicht
oder Zugriff verweigert.
Server: Nachr.-Nr. 2, Schweregrad 16, Status 1, Zeile 0
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Shared Memory]ConnectionOpen
(Connect()).
_________________________________________________________

Which means Microsoft uses ODBC itself for its internal DB Access with SQL
Query Analyzer, and NOT OLE DB.

Now if they can use this for their native DB Access, it must be perfect for
me.

Nice try anyway.

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