Microsoft has posted a preview release of its new SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux, which enables access to Microsoft SQL Server databases from Linux operating systems.

Microsoft today released a 64-bit SQL Server Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

As the Microsoft Excel team noted in a recent Office.com blog post, "Excel 2016 for Mac comes with a pre-installed and integrated SQL Server ODBC driver, which we worked hand-in-hand with Simba ...

The ODBC .NET Data Provider is intended to work with all compliant ODBC drivers, but the Microsoft site states that it has only been tested with the Microsoft SQL ODBC Driver, Microsoft ODBC ...

Microsoft said that future SQL Server APIs will phase out of OLE DB and back to supporting the Open Database Connectivity protocol.

Microsoft has released SQL Server ODBC drivers for the 64 bit version of Linux. These drivers are intended for C and C++ developers using Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux 5 and Enterprise Linux 6.

In addition to Microsoft's SQL Server, DataDirect's ODBC drivers provide connectivity to databases from Oracle, IBM (DB2 and Informix) and Sybase, among others. With the new release, the company has ...

Simba''s Big Data ODBC Drivers are the most advanced ODBC drivers available for direct SQL access to NoSQL databases. They are used by market leaders such as Alteryx, DataStax, Hortonworks, MapR ...