- Neil Sutter
- PowerBuilder
- Thursday, 27 July 2017 02:02 PM UTC
Hi,
Our PowerBuilder (12.6 at the moment) app has used SQL Server Native Client to connect to SQL Server 2005, 2008R2 and 2012. The client now want so to move to SQL Server 2014 and 2016.
Microsoft appears to be confused and confusing in regards to its support of native client beyond SQL Server 2012. There are several Microsoft articles indicating that SQL Server versions beyond 2012 would not support the native client interface. However, articles such as this, written in July 2016:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/native-client/applications/installing-sql-server-native-client
indicates that: "Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 11.0 is installed when you install SQL Server 2016". This would appear to indicate that SQL Server 2016 supports the native client interface.
So, the obvious questions is, what is everyone else doing to connect a PowerBuilder application to SQL Server versions after 2012?
TIA,
Neil
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