Native MS SQL: the dbmssql library, based on the native library ntwdblib, will no longer be delivered. The native library has been deprecated and is no longer part of the client.

Visual Studio 2005: Microsoft terminated the standard support in April 2011; DB Link is no longer built nor delivered for this platform.

While still included in DB Link V5.7, drivers for Oracle 9 (dbora9) are deprecated and will be removed from future releases. Oracle stopped supporting version 9i in 2007 and its extended support ended in July 2010.