Lesson 8, Why did Microsoft release MSDASQL formerly MSDAC.
A. So that applications built on OLEDB and ADO could access databases via ODBC drivers.
It is interesting to note that ADO uses OLEDB internally so what we have is
MSDASQL ---> OLEDB ---> ADO( ---> usese OLEDB) ---> to access ODBC databases, does this sound like Microsoft is discontinuing ODBC!
Does anyone know why MS is missing from ODBC, I mean ODBC is not called MSODBC like MSDASQL is it? the reason why ODBC is not called MSODBC is that MS does NOT determine it's past, present or furture it is a standard like w3c, it is an agreed set of rules to access databases from many different organizations.
If anything is going to be discontinued it is the likes of ADO.
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theLizardPosted Mar 1, 2010, 11:04 PM
But there is some misinformation being posted here and I think it is here that people should be made aware of it otherwise it may be lost in limbo and those wanting to learn will be sent in the wrong direction and that is not the correct way to teach.
Mahesh ChandPosted Mar 1, 2010, 10:20 PM
I think your lessons are not questions for forums. You may want to post them as Blog on the site. Purpose of forums is to help people by answering their questions.
Thank you for your support and keep forums clean!
Mahesh