OLE DB is dead ? Long live ODBC!

[James Beresford]

Something I picked up in passing at the MSDN SSIS forum – SQL Native Client OLE DB is being deprecated post Denali. See this post on the SQL Native Client Team Blog.

What does this mean?

1. First up this only applies to SQL Server connections – other OLE DB connectivity such as Teradata and Oracle will be unaffected.
2. In the short term, nothing – if you are using OLE DB it will carry on working for a fair few years yet – but if you are planning for a systems longevity – look to using ODBC for all your SQL Server connectivity needs

It’s a slightly confusing move given that ODBC underperforms OLE DB – so it’s bad news for us SSIS people, unless part of the change also includes some significant performance and capability improvements.



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