Lesson 8, Why did Microsoft release MSDASQL formerly MSDAC.

Mar 1 2010 4:46 PM

Lesson 8, Why did Microsoft release MSDASQL formerly MSDAC.

A. So that applications built on OLEDB and ADO could access databases via ODBC drivers.

It is interesting to note that ADO uses OLEDB internally so what we have is

MSDASQL ---> OLEDB ---> ADO( ---> usese OLEDB) ---> to access ODBC databases, does this sound like Microsoft is discontinuing ODBC!

Does anyone know why MS is missing from ODBC, I mean ODBC is not called MSODBC like MSDASQL is it? the reason why ODBC is not called MSODBC is that MS does NOT determine it's past, present or furture it is a standard like w3c, it is an agreed set of rules to access databases from many different organizations.

If anything is going to be discontinued it is the likes of ADO.

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Lesson 7, is ODBC Dead, NOT at all.

Binding a combobox to a specific column of an SQL database