I know what you are saying, it's happened here before! Something in the back of my mind tells me that Microsoft started shipping the Jet drivers as part of the OS. I can't remember where I heard/saw that but it's a fuzzy memory in the back of my mind. ______________________________________________________
Bill Grover Supervisor MIS Phone: 301.424.3300 x3324 EU Services, Inc. FAX: 301.424.3696 649 North Horners Lane E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD 20850-1299 WWW: http://www.euservices.com ______________________________________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 8:16 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Updating MDAC > > > We're runninng MDAC 2.5 SP3 on our CF5/IIS5 (Win2k) servers. > I was just > looking into updating this to the latest 2.7 SP1 version of > MDAC. These > servers are primarily using Access and MySQL through ODBC. > > The following was found on Microsoft's download page for MDAC > 2.7 SP1 download > page: > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Starting with Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) version > 2.6, MDAC no > longer contains Jet components. In other words, MDAC versions > 2.6 and later do > not include Microsoft Jet, Microsoft Jet OLE DB Provider, and > the ODBC Desktop > Database Drivers. > ------------------------------------------------------- > > So, does this mean that updates 2.6 and later have no Access > component, > therefore there's no real reason to update MDAC? I've been > burned before by > updating MDAC and losing support for older databases with no > way to undo the > installation, so want to be very careful. > > Thanks, > Jim > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
