>>>Another option is to use CA with ADO
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>>I do use CA but I thought that ADO will enable you to use new data type (e.g. DATE) but NOT varchar(MAX). Therefore, since I want the varchar(MAX) my only choice is 2000 ODBC.
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>ADO will handle all data types correctly as long as correct version of SQL Server Native client is installed on PC.
I looked at my notes back when I started to use SQL Server with ODBC and/or with ADO. I found that with ADO the type VARCHAR(MAX) was truncated to 255 characters. That is, VARCHAR(MAX) was being mapped to C(255). Have you experienced this?
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