MDAC 2.5 SDK - ODBC Desktop Database Drivers


 

Hardware and Software Requirements

Hardware Requirements

To use the ODBC Desktop Database Drivers, you must have:

Software Requirements

To access data with an ODBC driver, you must have:

When using Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000, the 32-bit driver is thread-safe, but only through the use of a global semaphore that controls access to the driver. Concurrent use of the driver is very limited under Windows NT. All access to the Jet ISAM layer will be single-threaded for all applications using the Microsoft Jet engine.

When running multiple 16-bit applications on Windows on Windows (WOW) on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, the applications must be run in separate memory spaces. (The same memory space cannot be used because ODBC does not support multiple environments in the same process.) To run an application in a separate memory space, select the application's icon in the Program Manager, open the File menu and click Properties, and then click Run In Separate Memory Space.

The use of these drivers by 16-bit applications on Windows 95 is not supported.

Driver-Specific Hardware and Software Requirements