Updated ADBC driver for SQL Server

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 .