Microsoft has cautioned customers using legacy versions of Access, warning them that they'll receive no support after October ...

If you are interested in the fastest performance, don't use Access as a front-end to a SQL Server database. While Access is relatively easy to learn and fast to develop in, its performance is poor ...

The Microsoft OLE DB Provider is an SQL tool that enables developers to write code that provides an application with ADO access to an SQL database.

Microsoft announced that it is seeking customers willing to test their databases in a cloud-based data connectivity project.

Leon McCalla on the Microsoft Connect forum says that KB 2992611 breaks ODBC access in SQL Server 2008. Mike G on the Citrix forum reports that KB 2992611 breaks XML.

Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core.