SQLDescribeParam will consistently return an ODBC specification conforming value. This was the primary reason, I had not created an installation video for SQL Server 2017.
The installation of SQL Server 2017 is pretty straight forward and very similar to previous versions of SQL Server. I have been using it for a while and it is a pretty stable release from Microsoft. For more information, see ICommandWithParameters. SQL Server 2017 has been released for a while.
When calling ICommandWithParameters::SetParameterInfo, the value passed to the pwszName parameter must be a valid identifier. The following topics describe SQL Server Native Client behavior changes in SQL Server 2012 (11.x). For more information, see Retrieving Output Parameters Using SQLGetData. For more information, see Data Type Support for ODBC Date and Time Improvements.Ĭalling SQLGetData with a small buffer multiple times to retrieve a large parameter value. To support this feature in SQL Server Native Client, SQLGetDescField can return SQL_C_SS_TIME2 (for time types) or SQL_C_SS_TIMESTAMPOFFSET (for datetimeoffset) instead of SQL_C_BINARY, if your application uses ODBC 3.8. For more information, see C Data Types in ODBC. For more information, see Asynchronous Execution.Ĭ Data Type Extensibility. ODBC in SQL Server Native Client supports three features that were added to standard ODBC in the Windows 7 SDK:Īsynchronous execution on connection-related operations. SQL Server Native Client Support for High Availability, Disaster RecoveryĪccessing Diagnostic Information in the Extended Events Log UTF-16 Support in SQL Server Native Client 11.0 SQL Server Native Client Support for LocalDB Information on the SQL Server Native Client features released with SQL Server 2012 (11.x), the last available version of SQL Server native Client:
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For more information and to download the SNAC or ODBC Drivers, see the SNAC lifecycle explained blog post.įor more information on ODBC Driver for SQL Server, see Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server.