INFO: Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) Release History

• Microsoft SQL Server version 7.0

SUMMARY

This article outlines the different MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Component) versions available and also describes which products install them.

MORE INFORMATION

The following table contains the list of different MDAC releases along with the release date for each.

MDAC Version	Release Date	Shipped With	Additional Notes
MDAC 2.1 Sp1a (GA)	4/1/1999	Office 2000, BackOffice 4.5, Visual Studio 98 SP3 (*Internet Explorer 5a shipped minimal install)	Web Release
MDAC 2.1 SP1	3/15/1999	Internet Explorer 5.0	No Web Release
MDAC 2.1	11/07/1998	SQL Server 7.0, Server 6.5 SP5	No Web Release
MDAC 2.0 SP2	07/01/1998		Released through the Web. Y2K remediation for all platforms
MDAC 2.0 SP1	07/01/1998	Windows NT 4.0 (SP4)	Y2K remediation for Windows NT 4.0
MDAC 2.0	07/01/1998	Visual Studio 98	No Web Release
MDAC 1.5 a/b/c/d	08/01/1997	n/a	n/a
MDAC 1.5	08/01/1997		MDAC 1.5 shipped two separate releases, with two separate sets of files. Shipped in betas for Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 (Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack), Internet Explorer 4.0, Internet Explorer 4.01 SP1, and Windows 98. The first release was in Internet Explorer 4.0. The second was from the 1997 Professional Developer's Conference

REFERENCES

For more information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q190215 INFO: MDAC Related White Papers (ODBC/OLE DB/ADO/RDS)

Q230722 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 1 - Overview/Installation

Q232574 INF: Readme.txt for SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 1

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