OLE DB Driver 18.5 for SQL Server is released, bringing support for SQL Data Discovery and Classification and Azure Active Directory Service Principal authentication to the driver along with a number of fixes. The driver can be downloaded directly from Microsoft.
Changes:
- Added support for SQL Data Discovery and Classification
- Azure Active Directory Service Principal authentication support
Fixed:
| Issue | Details |
| Fixed an issue with embedded NUL characters. | Fixed a bug, which resulted in the driver returning an incorrect length of strings with embedded NUL characters. |
| Fixed a memory leak in the IBCPSession interface. | Fixed a memory leak in the IBCPSession interface involving bulk copy operations of sql_variant data type. |
| Fixed bugs, which resulted in incorrect values being returned for SSPROP_INTEGRATEDAUTHENTICATIONMETHOD and SSPROP_MUTUALLYAUTHENTICATED properties. | Previous versions of the driver returned truncated values of the SSPROP_INTEGRATEDAUTHENTICATIONMETHOD property. Also, in the ActiveDirectoryIntegrated authentication case, the returned value of the SSPROP_MUTUALLYAUTHENTICATED property was VARIANT_FALSE even when both sides were mutually authenticated. |
| Fixed a linked server remote table insert bug. | Fixed a bug which caused a linked server remote table insert to fail if the NOCOUNT server configuration option has been enabled. |
| Fixed the SSPROP_INIT_PACKETSIZE property default value handling | Fixed an unexpected error when the SSPROP_INIT_PACKETSIZE property was set to its default value of 0. For details about this property, see Initialization and Authorization Properties. |
| Fixed buffer overflow issues in IBCPSession | Fixed buffer overflow issues when using malformed data files. |
| Fixed accessibility issues | Fixed accessibility issues in the installer UI and the SQL Server Login dialog (reading content, tab stops). |
Updated Jan 29, 2021
Version 2.0