What’s New in Client Installation and Configuration
Client installation and configuration in SQL Server 2014 is very similar to SQL Server 2012. The SQL Server Native Client (abbreviated SNAC or SNAC11) net-library introduced with SQL Server 2012 is the same one distributed with SQL Server 2014—there is no new version. This native client (SNAC11) is a single dynamic link library (DLL) containing both the SQL Server OLE DB provider and SQL Server ODBC driver. It builds on the data access component distribution strategy introduced in SQL Server 2005 that was simply called SQL Native Client (SNAC or SNAC9). The SNAC11 driver contains features such as support for AlwaysOn, SQL Server Express LocalDB, Azure SQL Database, and performance improvements ...
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