Recent Blog ArticlesMost RecentMost LikesRe: Announcement: System.Data.SqlClient package is now deprecated Noted. You might want to check out Entity Framework Core, though. Datasets are considered legacy and development efforts have been focused on EF Core for quite a long time now. Datasets and rel...All about SQL drivers and access tokens We often get support escalations related to failures around expired access tokens when using Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) authentication. There is a lot of nuance in the vario...Re: Update: Security hotfix released for OLE DB driver for SQL Server sabrina51Yes.KB5042214 (all SQL Server 2019 security updates) includes any security updates for Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server and Microsoft OLE DB Driver 18 for SQL Server. David Re: ODBC Driver 18.4 for SQL Server Released mthorulsley The issue was on Linux only. There was a leaked packet reference on a socket read timeout path that caused the delay down the line when cleaning up objects on disconnect. This parti...Re: Update: Security hotfix released for OLE DB driver for SQL Server RubyBlueThanks for catching that! Fixed! David Update: Security hotfixes released for ODBC and OLE DB drivers for SQL Server Important security issues prompted us to release updates to the ODBC and OLE DB drivers. Update: Security hotfix released for OLE DB driver for SQL Server An important security issue prompted us to release an update to the OLE DB driver for SQL Server. Re: ODBC Driver 18.4 for SQL Server Released LHWDTGThere is a good chance. ODBC uses a shared library under the covers that handles Entra ID authentication. We are switching to a newer library in the near future (don't have a date). I'll have ...Re: Update: Security hotfix released for OLE DB driver for SQL Server sabrina51It may require a server reboot. It depends on if the driver files are locked or not. However, you can also get the effect of KB5040711 being installed by installing the latest SQL Server 20...Re: Update: Security hotfixes released for ODBC and OLE DB drivers for SQL Server pmandadThat seems like a problem with the caching network backing the packages.microsoft.com repository. I'm guessing it was intermittent. Is it still happening?