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SQL Server Driver vs more recent ODBC driver
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20/11/2018 16:09:01
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 10
Database:
MS SQL Server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01663573
Message ID:
01663581
Views:
79
>Hi everybody,
>
>We're using SQL Server driver with our ODBC connection because of some issues.
>
>This driver seems to being deprecated and does't work for TLS 1.2.
>
>I forgot exact problems which led us to using this driver, can someone please summarize what are the problems with each of the driver and is there a workaround?
>
>We're using varchar(max) / varbinary(max) and text data types, but we're not using dates.
>
>Thanks in advance.

What do you mean by SQL Server driver? Do you mean you are using driver={SQL Server}? The SQL Server 2000 driver which is already 18+ years old? Why not use {SQL Server Native client 11.0}? There are many problems using old driver.

BTW text datatype is also going to be deprecated.
Çetin Basöz

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