Does SQL 2008 still support DB-LIB?

Does SQL 2008 still support DB-LIB or not ?

Thanks!

Yes, SQL Server 2008 will still support connections from DB-LIB. Also, if you are accessing new data types / features from DBLIB applications you may get errors or undefined behavior.

See the deprecated database engine features list in BOL more details. Note that to use the DBLIB DLL you need to have older version of SQL Server (2000 and below) since we don't ship those any more with the product.

|||Thank you very much.|||(Umachandar Jayachandran - MS@.discussions.microsoft.com) writes: > Yes, SQL Server 2008 will still support connections from DB-LIB. Also, > if you are accessing new data types / features from DBLIB applications > you may get errors or undefined behavior. > > See the deprecated database engine features list in BOL more details. To say it more directly: the version of SQL Server following SQL 2008 will *not* accept connections from DB-Library. -- Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx