I know what you're all saying and have encountered it myself in the past, but I recently upgraded to MDAC2.7sp1, so that I could put a standalone version of CFMX6.1 alongside CF5 and I've had no issues with it. Apps running off of access are still quite happily running.
Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 2:20 PM Subject: RE: Updating MDAC > I've had exactly that same problem. I wanted to test redsky but it says > I need to update MDAC from 2.5, the last time I did that (up to 2.7) all > my access connections died and I couldn't revert either so I had to > rework the machine. Currently that is what is holding up my jump to > redsky. I don't know if I want to take the chance. > > -----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 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
