Summary of New Features

The ODBC Provider supports the following new features:

• Named parameters. You no longer have to specify ordinal numbers of parameters in stored procedures.
  
  
• Approximate scrolling. IRowsetScroll is now completely supported with ODBC 3.x drivers that support the appropriate ODBC diagnostic fields. The "Interface Implementation Notes" contain information on what an ODBC 3.x driver needs to enable this functionality.
  
  
• GUID data type. The ODBC 3.5 GUID data type is fully supported.
  
  
• Bookmarks on newly added rows. The ODBC Provider supports the ability to retrieve the bookmark associated with a newly added row.
  
  
• Driver-specific errors. The ODBC Provider includes new extensions that support driver-specific error fields.
  
  
• Microsoft Transaction Server (see "ITransactionJoin").
  
  
• Expanded data conversion.
  
  
• ISequentialStream support for parameter binding.