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David_Richardson
Mar 14, 2023Copper Contributor
The Future of Access, DAO, and SQL Server
I am new to this community so please forgive me if this question has already been asked and answered. My employer has a number of large MS-Access applications that use SQL Server for the backend. T...
George_Hepworth
Mar 14, 2023Silver Contributor
Arggh. Rumors are the bane of any Access developer's life. Why do people like to start and spread them?
Unfortunately, you seem to have run into one such unfounded rumor.
Guess what, ODBC 18 is based on using DAO. It's been available that way for some time. Here's the release announcement. There is nothing in it about DAO at all!
Who told you it was going to be changed? Why would they say that?
But, before we get all worked up, perhaps you can share a link to the source of this rumor, so others can see what might really be going on?