Upgrade from Windows Data Access Components to SQL Server Native Client, which exposes new features of SQL Server 2005 with backward compatibility. In addition, although MDAC contains components for ...

[!INCLUDEssNoVersion] Native Client is one technology that you can use to access data in a [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] database. For a discussion of the different data-access technologies, see Data Access ...

For the first time, Microsoft is bringing native vector support to SQL Server. SQL Server 2025 will be an enterprise-ready vector database that can generate and natively store vector embeddings.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client (SQL Native Client) is a single dynamic-link library (DLL) containing both the SQL OLE DB provider and SQL ODBC driver. Audience (s): Customer, Partner ...

Microsoft Previews SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux. By Leila Meyer; 11/29/11; Microsoft has posted a preview release of its new SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux, which enables access to Microsoft SQL ...

Native support for JSON in the upcoming SQL Server 2016 was buried among the many goodies announced earlier this month for the flagship RDBMS, but it's clearly an important feature for data developers ...