Or how about the creation of a connection, did anyone think about the ODBC
connection might not be able to connect to the DB... Worth I thought!!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 17 May 2001 7:39 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Instantiate environment?????? Whats that?
>
>
> Instantiate normally refers to the creation of an instance of a class (ie
> an object) when dealing with object orientated programming (going back to
> ye olde telephone example from college - the object 'telephone' is an
> instance of the class 'telephones'). Ok, there's a little more to it than
> that, but you get the picture.
>
> I'm not 100% sure of what this error means, having never seen it before,
> but I'm sure it's something to do with a failure to create an ODBC
> instance. You say the sites have an identical setup, if they do,
> something
> has gone haywire on one (windows voodoo), but I'd guess you have
> different
> versions of the MS Data Access Components installed on both
> machines (ODBC
> is one of the components included) - get the latest copy of MDAC and
> fingers crossed the problem will be resolved.
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> >What does this error message mean? I'm using an access database as an
> >interim measure with this project. The CFQUERY mentioned hasn't got
> >anything special in it .. this page is copied from another site
> that works
> >fine with identical setup - only the data itself is different.
> So I don't
> >think it's a code error. (but then again I've been known to be wrong
> >before. 1975 I think it was)
> >
> >Here's the error message:
> >[quote]
> >
> >Error Diagnostic Information
> >ODBC Error Code = ()
> >Unable to instantiate environment for 'ODBC.'
> >
> >The error occurred while processing an element with a general
> identifier of
> >(CFQUERY), occupying document position (1:2) to (1:49).
> >
> >Date/Time: 05/17/01 00:08:46
> >Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
> >[end quote]
> >
> >And who thought up that word "instantiate"??? Do they really mean
> >initiate? Initialise?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Mike Kear
> >AFP Webworks
> >Windsor, NSW, Australia
> >
> >
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