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Resolved OLEDB support

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  1. mike S
    mike S
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  3. Wednesday, 19 September 2018 13:53 PM UTC

I saw this in a bug report reply from appeon support, and i am hoping to get some clarification from appeon:

"As OLE DB doesn’t support 64-bit, we will not enhance its support. "

 

 

Microsoft had announced that OLE DB is NOT deprecated, and in fact has released  new OLE DB drivers.   These drivers are 64 bit and 32 bit.   

 

What is the plan for ole db support from appeon?

 

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlnativeclient/2017/10/06/announcing-the-new-release-of-ole-db-driver-for-sql-server/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56730

 

 

 

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
Armeen Mazda @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Wednesday, 19 September 2018 21:51 PM UTC
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Mike, the feature was deprecated.  Microsoft changed their mind recently, and we didn't keep tracking this because it is rare that Microsoft deprecates something and then "undeprecates" it: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlnativeclient/2017/10/06/announcing-the-new-release-of-ole-db-driver-for-sql-server/

Anyway, I will escalate this to product management to carefully track, but we would not be enhancing this unless we see significant demand.

The other thing I would like to point out is that just because Microsoft didn't deprecate it doesn't mean they are going to make big enhancements.  The fact they decided to deprecate originally means it is not strategic direction so it would most likely be "maintenance mode".

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mike S
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  2. Thursday, 20 September 2018 20:20 PM UTC
MS has a history of doing this.



they got rid of original native client, then they came back with a new native client which was THE future, and now (2014?) they deprecated native client again. pretty similar to their ODBC story: 'OLEDB is replacing ODBC so stop using ODBC' and then 'odbc is replacing OLEDB so stop using OLEDB'



ADO.net is known to be slow. I think OLEDB really caught on because the old client was/is shipped with windows (the newest one is not currently being shipped with windows).



In any case, the new oledb driver does have new features.

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
  1. Chris Pollach @Appeon
  2. Thursday, 20 September 2018 20:27 PM UTC
Hi Mike;

I was just reading last month where MS (after many, many SS customers complained) is now planning to bring back and enhance the SS native interface as well. Hard to know what MS is going to do these days with SS or its O/S ... https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-1809-microsoft-reveals-features-its-dropping-in-october-2018-update/



Regards ... Chris
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