Hi Russ For those of us who have been out of the loop for a while, can you suggest easy to implement alternatives to 32 bit MS access? I did a conversion of a DB to SQL server some years back and that was painful.
Ben > On Nov 5, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Russ Michaels <[email protected]> wrote: > > > well someone has to say it... > but why the frack are you still using MSACCESS when there are so many > better/free alternatives? > you know the Jet driver (which is what you use to connect to MSACCESS) is > no longer supported by Microsoft and ha snot been for years and only runs > in 32 bit, and as such does not work on modern 64bit OS (without lots of > hacking to get it to run in 32bit mode), which is Windows Server 2008 > onwards, there is no 32 bit windows any more. > > > >> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:44 PM, <> wrote: >> >> >>>> I have robot updaters and inserters too (made all the more robotic with >> the >> help of cfdbinfo figuring out the field types), >> >> This is what I do, but using my own CFX_ODBCinfo I developped years before >> cfdbinfo was available, >> and I'm still using it because cfdbinfo doesn't work for Access databases. >> >>>> Debugging is miserable with a layer of >> code in the middle and straightforward without. >> >> Right, I think I'm going to improve my CF_INSERT tag by generating the SQL >> code in the tag. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:357038 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
