Jet driver version

[David W. Fenton]

You really mean to tell me that there are no services running on
your computer right now that are not related to server
functionality? You have a very odd setup on your computer.

What the hell are you talking about?

I don't know what youre assumptions about services mean, but the
fact that you don't understand Jet enough to know whether or not it
has dependencies on any running services shows that you shouldn't be
selling your services for developing apps that use Jet data stores.

So you really think that none of the people ever develop an Access
database for use with other applications or connect to them with
Jet?

I didn't suggest any such thing. But the *majority* of people using
Jet are Access developers, which means they won't have any
experience using ODBC to interace with Jet data.

I would not
have expected a product with such a large user base to have such a
narrow focus.

VB developers wouldn't likely use ODBC, either, as they can use DAO
or ADO. They are the most likely to use Jet who are not Access
developers.

In the product that is my core competency, it is very common for
people to have experience in not just the program we use, but also
Flash, Access, ASP, ColdFusion, graphic design, technical writing,
and instructional design. I'm not used to the concept of a one
trick pony.

Many people *do* have experience using other tools. But most of
those tools won't use ODBC to get to Jet data. The most likely case
where ODBC would be used is, I think, with web developers. There's
not much overlap between Access and web developers, I'd think, since
Access is not Web-friendly.

Sorry. It hadn't occurred to me that Access developers would be
so narrowly focused that they wouldn't be more familiar with the
technology used to connect to Access Databases.

\/\/hatever.

You're obviously using tools you don't understand and are not at all
competent in programming. If you were competent, you'd have the
error messages you needed and would be able to ask a question here
that someone could answer.

 

[Tom Wickerqueer]

I've seen 100 failures in jet.

that is why I graduated to SQL Server-- 10 years ago

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Without any error messages, there's basically no help that anyone
can give you.

At this point there is no way to gather that information.

Then nobody is going to be able to help you.

What is the point
of posting to say you have no intention of being helpful?

I would be happy to offer advice if there were any information given
that would allow me to do so.

But there isn't, and you say there never will be.

I actually said there would not be for _this_ user. Who knows when/if
there will be another user with a similar problem? However, I find it
highly unlikely that _no one_ on this forum has ever seen a failure of Jet
of any kind that they could share a few thoughts on.

How unprofessional of you to distribute a program without any error
reporting!

It has all kinds of error reporting. It does not have any error reporting
for _this_ situation, because it was not an error I thought I'd ever need
to trap for.

You're the one wasting people's time, seems to me.

You did not have to respond to my post. If you respond to a post, it
looks to others who might help as if the user is getting help, so
unhelpful posts are actually obstructive. If you can't provide productive
input, it's better not to create the appearance that you're helping.

Thanks;

Amy

 

[Tom Wickerqueer]

you're not used to the concept of a one trick pony?

you're an ART FAG that doesn't understand anything about databases

if you did know ANYTHING about databases; you would use a database SERVICE
and not MDB

 

[Jerry Whittle]

I guess that means at least one failure in SQL Server. ;-)