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Q124815: INFO: Explanation of the Two Available MS Access Drivers

Article: Q124815
Product(s): Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
Version(s): WINDOWS:2.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 12-JUN-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Open Database Connectivity, version 2.0 
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SUMMARY
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This article discusses the difference between the ODBC Access driver that ships
with Microsoft Office Professional/Microsoft Access version 2.0 and the Access
driver that ships with the ODBC Desktop Database Drivers version 2.0/ODBC
Software Development Kit (SDK) version 2.10.

MORE INFORMATION
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The ODBC Access driver, included in Microsoft Office Professional version 4.3
and Microsoft Access version 2.0, is intended to be used only from within
Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel to get to Microsoft Access 2.0 databases. The
use of this driver from any other application is not supported. This driver
cannot be redistributed with any other application.

To get the general purpose ODBC Access driver for Microsoft Access 2.0 databases,
you need to have ODBC Desktop Database Drivers version 2.0.

The Microsoft Windows Driver Library (WDL) is available on online services. For
more information about the WDL, see the following article in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base.

  Q135314 Windows 95 Driver Library

Additional query words: odbc ref obtain

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbAudDeveloper kbODBCSearch kbODBC200
Version           : WINDOWS:2.0
Issue type        : kbinfo

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