title Read-Only Status (Text File Driver) | Microsoft Docs ms.custom ms.date 01/19/2017 ms.prod sql ms.prod_service connectivity ms.reviewer ms.technology connectivity ms.topic conceptual helpviewer_keywords read-only status for text driver [ODBC] text file driver [ODBC], read-only status ms.assetid 859580bb-4e69-4517-a4f1-460649dd06ca author David-Engel ms.author v-daenge Read-Only Status (Text File Driver) When the Text driver is used, data source tables are read-only. However, applications can perform insertions for Text tables.