Has JET been discontinued?

I thought JET was discontinued but I have no confirmation from an "official"
page. Comments?

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Re: Has JET been discontinued?

clintonG wrote:
> I thought JET was discontinued but I have no confirmation from an
> "official" page. Comments?

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Jet_Database_Engine:
Future
From a data access technology standpoint, Jet is a considered a
deprecated techology by Microsoft.[9] The Jet engine is no longer
distributed with the latest Microsoft Data Access Components. However,
Jet is and will continue to be the primary database engine for Microsoft
Access. In fact, Jet is essentially going back to its roots with Access
2007, by being distributed (and supported) only within Access.[10]

The Jet Database Engine will remain 32-bit only for the forseeable
future. Microsoft has no plans to natively support Jet under 64-bit
versions of Windows. This means that native 64-bit applications (such as
the 64-bit versions of SQL Server) cannot access data stored in MDB
files through ODBC, OLE DB, or any other means.





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Re: Has JET been discontinued?

Thanks, Wikipedia is good enough for me -- usually -- so thanks for also
pointing out that footnote...

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> clintonG wrote:
>> I thought JET was discontinued but I have no confirmation from an
>> "official" page. Comments?
>
> From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Jet_Database_Engine:
> Future
> From a data access technology standpoint, Jet is a considered a
> deprecated techology by Microsoft.[9] The Jet engine is no longe>
> distributed with the latest Microsoft Data Access Components. However,
> Jet is and will continue to be the primary database engine for Microsoft
> Access. In fact, Jet is essentially going back to its roots with Access
> 2007, by being distributed (and supported) only within Access.[10]
>
> The Jet Database Engine will remain 32-bit only for the forseeable
> future. Microsoft has no plans to natively support Jet under 64-bit
> versions of Windows. This means that native 64-bit applications (such as
> the 64-bit versions of SQL Server) cannot access data stored in MDB
> files through ODBC, OLE DB, or any other means.
>
>
>
>
>
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> Please reply to the newsgroup. The email account listed in my From
> header is my spam trap, so I don't check it very often. You will get a
> quicker response by posting to the newsgroup.
>
>