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. This is because when Microsoft released SP4 for SQL 6.5 they got the setup.inf file wrong and it wouldn't install to Win9x clients. They subsequently fixed it and re-released the service pack but it didn't...
A. All the above can ONLY be caused by a hardware problem or with part of NT running in Kernel Mode. e.g. bits of NT, scsi drivers, network drivers, video drivers etc...
