Today, we are happy to announce availability of new Microsoft ODBC Drivers for SQL Server on Windows and for SQL Server on Linux. Introducing the new Microsoft ODBC Drivers for SQL Server As outlined in a previouspost , Microsoft is adopting ODBC...

This has been re-posted from the SQL Server Team Blog . In our continued commitment to interoperability, we are very excited to announce the availability of a preview release of the SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux! This release will allow native developers...

Greetings Developer community: We heard yesterday and today at the PASS conference about the exciting new areas that we are investing in bringing the power of SQL Server to our customers. Many of our developers who rely on native connectivity to SQL...

Greetings to the Developer community: Thank you very much for an overwhelming response on our survey. Feedback is continuing to pour. We are extending the deadline to complete the survey to September 15 th , 2011 to allow everyone to provide input...

ODBC is the de-facto industry standard for native relational data access, which is supported on all platforms including SQL Azure. Cloud is universal and in order to support all client applications connecting from any platform to the cloud, Microsoft...

Greetings to the Developer community: Microsoft SQL Server team has been interacting on a regular basis with the developers and users in the form of surveys. During the last 2 years, we completed surveys that focused on the broad SQL Connectivity components...

Greetings to the SQL Server community: Back around October 2009, we introduced the process of interacting on a regular basis with the developers and users in the form of surveys. Today, we are happy to introduce the ability for you to suggest and vote...

In the Feb. 2010 blog post, “ Using SQL Server Client APIs with SQL Azure Version 1.0 ”, Steve Hale provided details regarding similarities and differences to watch out for when developing an application with SQL Azure. In this post, the focus...

We’re excited to announce that Denali SNAC CTP1 adds support for the ODBC 3.8 features of the Microsoft ODBC DM (Driver Manager) introduced in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Please refer to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/data/archive/2009/07/06...

Thank-you all for your active participation in our Fall 2010 customer survey. Due to your overwhelming response, we have extended the survey until Nov. 2. For quick access, the link to the survey is here http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22BAW29Z8P2...

Greetings to the SQL Server community: Last year in October 2009, we introduced the process of interacting on a regular basis with the developers and users in the form of surveys. During the last 12 months, we completed surveys that focused on the...

The Microsoft SQL Server team is working on a portal page that brings together common resources and community links for all data access providers to Microsoft SQL Server. We’d like your feedback on how useful you will find it and what else you’d...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ceb4346f-657f-4d28-83f5-aae0c5c83d52 This includes SQL Server Native Client 2008 R2.

Dear SQL Server developers and users The Microsoft SQL Server JDBC team is beginning to think of future JDBC driver releases. As we review the priorities and goals for the long term, we view you and your organization as key stakeholders. Your input...

Dear Colleague, The Microsoft SQL Server Connectivity team has received feedback indicating interest in ODBC support for non-Windows platforms and is now conducting a more detailed survey of this area. The survey takes less than 10 minutes to complete...

This post describes some of the issues that the application developer should be aware of when writing ODBC, ADO.NET SQLClient, BCP, and PHP code that connects to SQL Azure. There is no intention here to replace the SQL Azure documentation available on...

Dear SQL Server developers and users: It is this time of the year when we in the SQL Server Native Client product team take a step back, review the priorities and goals for the long term and identify areas that will benefit from investments. We view YOU...

You can download SQL Server 2008 Native Client here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6C3E9EF-BA29-4A43-8D69-A2BED18FE73C&displaylang=en You can download SQL Server 2005 Native Client from here: http://www.microsoft.com...

The SQL Server Connection Director is a feature in Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP. However, Microsoft has already decided that this feature will not be included in the final version of Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2. Please...

Dear SQL Server developers and users: It is this time of the year when we in the SQL Connectivity product team take a step back, review the priorities and goals for the long term and identify areas that will benefit from investments. We view YOU and your...

So, you've heard about some new ODBC features that were introduced in Windows 7 beta and you wanna know more about it. There's a great blog posting on our sister blog site describing the features. Please go to http://blogs.msdn.com/data/archive/2009/07...

(Anton Klimov, a developer on the SQL Server Native Client team, wrote the following article.) Connection strings for an OLE DB provider is a concept that causes a lot of confusion. One problem is that OLE DB itself does not define connection string...

Hi, My name is David Schwartz and I own the documentation for SQL Server Native Client and Windows (formerly Microsoft) Data Access Components. Are there sections in the documentation that don't meet your needs? I'm interested to know your thoughts...

ODBC 3.8 is in beta 1 of the Windows 7 SDK... And beta 1 of the Windows 7 SDK is now available on http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a91dc12a-fc94-4027-b67e-46bab7c5226c&DisplayLang=en ODBC 3.8 includes new features...

The SQL Server Native Client team at Microsoft is accepting applications for the position of program manager. For more information about this position, see: http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=F9C9E835-AB77-449C-9E6B-732AFD1A7EAB...