System Requirements for the OLE DB Provider for SQL Server

To access Microsoft® SQL Server™ data, you must have the following software:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server (SQLOLEDB)
SQL Server
Network software

OLE DB consumer development requires Microsoft Visual C++® version 5.0.

SQLOLEDB Requirements

SQLOLEDB requires:

Microsoft Windows® 95/98 on Intel® computers or
Microsoft Windows NT® (version 4.0) or later on Alpha or Intel computers.

SQL Server Requirements

To use SQLOLEDB to access data in SQL Server databases, you must have SQL Server version 6.5 or later. The catalog stored procedures must be installed on your SQL Server installation.

Network Software Requirements

SQLOLEDB communicates with network software through the SQL Server Net-Library interface, which requires a Net-Library dynamic-link library (DLL). The SQL Server version 7.0 OLE DB provider requires the SQL Server 7.0 versions of Net-Library .dll files. These are installed when you run the client portion of SQL Server Setup.

Configuring Client Network Connections	Net-Libraries and Network Protocols
Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server	Upgrading the Catalog Stored Procedures (OLE DB)