- Aron Cox
- PowerBuilder
- Thursday, 8 April 2021 01:28 PM UTC
We've been using the old SQL Server ODBC driver (SQLSRV32) for a long, long time now, and now it's finally time to update to a new driver. We originally looked at replacing it with the ODBC Driver 17 and that seems to work well and supports all the modern features of SQL Server.
However, at the last Elevate conference it seems Appeon think the Microsoft OLE DB Driver (MSOLEDBSQL) is the driver of choice, and no-one at Appeon seem to have even heard of the ODBC Driver 17. So I'm about to have a look at the OLE DB driver and see how well it works for us.
My first issue is I am used to using ODBCAD32.EXE to setup ODBC data sources on PCs, but it doesn't seem like there's an equivalent thing for the OLE DB driver. So what do people do to get the connection settings out to users?
I could of course just add my own registry stuff, or create an INI or config file, but I wonder if there is some standard way of doing this that I'm missing???
Any thoughts appreciated!
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