Lesson 7, is ODBC Dead, NOT at all.

Question

From Microsoft.

I have underlined the key words so hope that yo understand what they mean.

What is MSDASQL?

MSDASQL is an OLEDB provider that allows applications built on OLEDB and ADO (which uses OLEDB internally) to access data sources through an ODBC driver instead of a database. MSDASQL ships with the Windows Operating System, and Longhorn Beta 3 is the first Windows release to include a 64-bit version of MSDASQL.

In other words MSDASQL(oledb and ado)  uses ODBC to connect with databases, does this look like Microsoft is going to discontinue support for ODBC, in the near future, hardly, all that Microsoft have dine is what they have always done and that is to introduce yet another layer to confuse people with and make something that is efficient, in efficient.

How many people here know that Visual Basic was NOT a Microsoft product when it was developed? They turned a good product into a resource hungry elephant.