Will my PC work properly if i uninstall this file? (Mincrosoft Sql Server 2008 R2 Native Client)

Question

Here is a screen shoot how this file looks like i wanna know what will happen if i will uninstall this and can i even do it?

Answer 1

Hi Tonyy-5958,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A.
SQL Server Native Client combines the SQL OLE DB provider and the SQL ODBC driver into one library that you can use to access data in a SQL Server database. It can be used to create new applications or enhance existing applications that need to take advantage of features introduced in SQL Server, such as multiple active result sets (MARS), user-defined data types (UDT), query notifications, snapshot isolation, and XML data type support. Please refer to this doc for more details.
If you don’t use it, you can uninstall it without any worries.

Best Regards,
Amelia

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Answer 2

SQL Server Native client is a data provider to connect to SQL Server and if an application uses that one and you uninstall it, the application will fail.
On the other hand it's an easy one to re-install the data provider.