The OLE DB Provider is not installed by default when SQL Server is installed. Microsoft offers the tool as part of the Microsoft SQL Server Feature Pack, or you can download just the Provider ...

The OLE DB Driver for SQL Server is an OLE DB version 2.0-compliant provider. This OLE DB Driver for SQL Server programming reference does not document all of the OLE DB interfaces and methods, only ...

I need help in a serious way. I have spent the last 4 months developing a major web-based application for the bank that employs me and it is time to go to testing. Here, we have three environments ...

Learn how to use IRowsetFastLoad to stream varying length BLOB data per row to SQL Server. This example also demonstrates ISequentialStream. This sample shows how to use IRowsetFastLoad to stream ...

Microsoft indicated that it will gradually step away from supporting OLE DB. There will be a seven-year phase-out period for OLE DB, corresponding with the lifecycle support period of SQL Server ...

For example, SSIS is perfectly suited for importing a "flat file," such as a CSV, into a relational database. Using SSIS's graphical designer, the task is straightforward, if not entirely intuitive.