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. 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. 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. 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. 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. First of all it could be a corruption exactly like the message says. Run a dbcc checktable against sysindexes on the database concerned. Also a dbcc checkcatalog...
A. With 6.5 and below you cannot use the DUMP and LOAD DATABASE commands - it does not do the necessary byte re-ordering to make this work. Therefore you must use bcp, DTS, the transfer tools supplied in SQL EM or...
A. No - row numbering is contrary to relational sets (which is what rdbms's running SQL are all about). It is not an ANSI standard. Microsoft have not implemented anything like it...
A. A. There aren't any I'm afraid. These were initially thought to be going into SQL 7.0 but will now only be in SQL 2000 - due by the end of 1st half 2000...
