A. The best overrall lists of ODBC/JDBC/OLEDB vendor's I know is run by Ken North :-http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Ken_North/odbcvend.htmhttp://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Ken_North/jdbcvend.htmhttp:/...
A. The Microsoft ODBC and OLEDB drivers for Oracle support the Oracle 7.3 BLOB data types, not Oracle 8.0 data types (for example, BLOB, CLOB, NCLOB, and BFILE are not supported)...
A. The process concerned is accessing an area of memory that SQL Server needs to protect against multiple access - typically on SMP servers. To this end it locks that area of memory (via a spin lock) so that any...
A. SQL Server is dependent on network functionality - even for the set-up routines. Specifically it needs to use named-pipe/mailslot functionality on NT machines. These usually require a network card to be present...
A. v6.5 is still available from Microsoft fulfillment. You need to buy 7.0 and associated licenses and then call the Microsoft Fulfillment office with the serial number(s)/details and they will ship you the 6.5 media...
A. An MVP is a Microsoft Valued Professional. These are people recognised by Microsoft as providing a "lot" of help on their internet newsgroups for fellow users. You can't pass and exam or pay to become one. There...
A. SP5 was released on 24th December 1998. It was re-issued as SP5a on 26th January to fix a problem with 603's on loading dumps. Make sure you apply SP5a (build 416) and not SP5 (build 415). If you are already on...