Re: Microsoft ODBC & Access Advisory...

[cgknipe () MWEB CO ZA (Chris Knipe)]

Hi all

This is just a small note as a follow up on my original advisory posted to
the BugTraq mailing list in regards to Microsoft's ODBC Database Drivers.

I recently got my hands on Office 2000 Premium...  I am not sure about the
other versions of MS 2000 products, but I presume they all will include it.

Office 2000 includes updated OLE, ODBC, and other database engines, ASWELL
as additional and updated DRIVERS for the actual Databases.

I happily run heavy-loaded IIS web sites with Databases connected and
"interconnected" from different platforms such as Microsoft SQL, Access and
others.  In about 4 weeks, the only problems I had was ASP statements
looping:)

The Database connections are as stable as a rock (For now)...   I'll advise
anyone who's been having the mentioned problems, to either upgrade their MS
Office to the 2000 product range, visit http://www.microsoft.com/data/ and
download the newer database engines & drivers, or do database routines
through Microsoft Transaction Server which will protect the OS and
applications from locking up.

Kind Regards
Chris Knipe

For those who are interested, I have the following versions installed:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ODBC Version:
  ODBC Driver Manager:  3.510.37110.0
  ODBC Driver Administrator: 3.510.37110.0

Database Drivers:
  ACCESS Driver: 4.00.3711.08
  dBase Driver: 4.00.3711.08
  dBase VFP Driver: 6.00.8428.00
  Excel Driver: 4.00.3711.08
  FoxPro Driver: 4.00.3711.08
  FoxPro VFP Driver: 6.00.8428.00
  Oracle Driver: 2.573.3711.00
  Paradox Driver: 4.00.3711.08
  TXT Driver: 4.00.3711.08
  VisualPro Driver: 6.00.8428.00
  SQL Driver: 3.70.06.23

As you more than likely noticed, there's a few huge changes here... It's
actually good...

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