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

Denali will be the final edition of SQL Server to support OLE DB, because Microsoft considers ODBC to be the industry standard for relational data access.

I'm trying to track down a problem with some of our unit tests; they're failing on a 2005 database with an OleDb Timeout exception.The 2005 database is a restore of a 2000 backup, with the ...

In the test environment (2 IIS web servers, 1 SQL server, 1 IIS Utility server) none of our DB-driven apps are working. We cannot figure out the issue, but we think that MDAC is hosed.