I hust bumped into some old news (2011) I hadn't heard before that I thought might be of interest to those working on database drivers for Pharo, to perhaps not spend any time on OLEDB. "Microsoft announced it will focus on supporting the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) approach for SQL Server application programming interfaces (APIs) in the near future. Microsoft indicated that it will gradually step away from supporting OLE DB." https://redmondmag.com/articles/2011/09/01/microsoft-shifting-to-open-databa... cheers -ben