Re: different mdac, different sql server behaviour

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From: Keith Kratochvil (sqlguy.back2u_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/22/04


Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:22:45 -0600


(1) MDAC Component Checker
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8f0a8df6-4a21-4b43-bf53-14332ef092c9&displaylang=en

(2) I would guess that you are using the ODBC driver, but I don't know. How
did you set up the link to SQL Server in the first place?

-- 
Keith
<ace join_to ware@iinet.net.au (Tony Epton)> wrote in message
news:41c9a201.57817078@news.m.iinet.net.au...
> I have done a partial conversion of a large MS Access batch processing
> program to use a SQL server 2000 back end.
> All I have done is move all the access tables in to SQL server and
> give them primary keys so that tje Access front end can attach to them
> as updateable tables. No pass thru queries or anything that will take
> advantage of the SQL facilities.
>
> In my development environment I am running Access 97 on Windows 98.
>
> The client is running Access 97 on Windows XP
>
> I am seeing different behaviour between my environment and the clients
> environment - with exactly the same data sitting on the back end SQL
> databases and exactly the same Access 97 front end.
>
> I have managed to knock all the bugs out of the program when it runs
> in my environment - but in their environment we are still seeing the
> dreaded "Record is Deleted" message - seems to occur in some
> situations where I use an outer join and attempt to pick up a value
> from a field in the non existent record side of the join.
>
> QUESTION - presumably the discrepancies are caused by us running
> different versions of MDAC
>
> 1) can anyone tell me where I can download that utility that tells you
> which version of mdac you are running
> 2) which part of mdac am I using when access attaches to the SQL back
> end but all the work is still being done by the access front end ?
>
> ole db server for Access ? odbc driver for SQL, jet ?
>
> Many thanks
> Tony


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