And in fact to install a 32-bit odbc driver on x64 machines, you get the 64-bit version of ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server, which installs both the 32-bit and the 64-bt drivers. You still have to use the odbcad32.exe in the sysw0w64 directory, but on 8.1 and forward, if you type ODBC into the search entry, separately-labelled versions will show in the results. I take both of these accommodations as support for the idea that 32-bit data access is going to be around for some while.

>>Hi Craig,
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>>>ODBC is the way to go. Microsoft has dropped support for OLE-DB (ADO) for SQL Server.
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>>Thanks for the information.
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>>Concerning ODBC, I understand that I shall not be able to use ODBC-64 drivers from VFP. That makes sense. Is it a problem or do you believe that ODBC-32 drivers should be available for some time in the coming years?
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>32-bit ODBC drivers should be around for many, many years, as long as there are 32-bit clients that need them.
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>Even Microsoft Office is still most commonly 32-bit.