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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed

by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1704 pages
111h 8m
English
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Connecting Using the Various Providers and Drivers

Now that you know what your options are in terms of providers and drivers, the following sections detail them one by one, with a special focus on putting the features in SQL Server 2008 to work.

Using SNAC

SNAC is a net-library that contains both the latest OLE DB provider and ODBC driver for using the rich features in SQL Server 2008 databases. It is compatible for accessing SQL Server 7, 2000, and 2005 databases as well.

The code for SNAC is contained in the single dynamic link library sqlncli10.dll, and it serves as provider, driver, and API for applications that call its underlying COM functions from unmanaged code (that is, from C or C++).

The bottom line with SNAC is that if you’re building ...

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