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ODBC Driver 18.3 for SQL Server Released

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Aug 03, 2023
Version 18.3 of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server has been released. Version 18.3 brings some improvements and fixes to the driver.   Added Support for Managed Identity (MSI) authen...
Published Aug 03, 2023
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Aug 18, 2023

taozuhong Libraries are available for all of those languages: Connection libraries for Microsoft SQL Database - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn

 

And you can package ODBC directly. Huge is also pretty relative. 4.5MB for the Windows x64 installer (containing x64 and x86 binaries) and <1MB on Linux/macOS isn't huge by modern standards. If you really want to go smaller on Windows, you can forgo the Windows ODBC Driver Manager subsystem, just package the DLL (<2MB), and load the library directly from your app folder.

 

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David