Today the ADBC Drivers Contributors released an updated driver for Microsoft SQL Server, version 1.4.0, available immediately via dbc. To update, just dbc install mssql to get the latest version.
Version 1.4.0 has several improvements and bug fixes, including:
- Ingest and query for GEOMETRY/GEOGRAPHY types using GeoArrow extension types
- Control over which Arrow type is used for large string types like NVARCHAR(MAX)
- Fixed support for Kerberos authentication
For more details, see the full changelog. To learn more about how to use the driver, check out the documentation and quickstarts.
Bug reports and feature requests are welcome through GitHub Issues in the adbc-drivers/mssql repository. You can also start a Discussion on GitHub or join the Columnar Community Slack.