Deprecated and Retired Support

• 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.