[AccessD] Using ADO and Windows 7 SP1? Be careful!

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Mar 31 16:20:08 CDT 2011


PS: It is interseting as a Redmond training seminar is starting at the MS
college at the end of May and Wintellect will be the teachers.

http://view.exacttarget.com/?j=fe5d1572706c0d787615&m=ff001675756503&ls=fe32
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I believe Jeffrey Richter was the trainers who warned against an Access BE
so you can always pop him an email and ask hime why and how.

Jim



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 11:37 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using ADO and Windows 7 SP1? Be careful!

Actually, when it comes to a web interfaced app, using an .mdb for a
backend is just fine.  There are only a few times where I would actually
recommend a SQL Server Backend:

Size limitation.

Needs to have another non-web based front end.

Needs triggers.

Other than that, an .mdb is just fine.  Uses less over head, can run
just as fast, if not faster, etc.

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 11:30 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using ADO and Windows 7 SP1? Be careful!

Just put a nice "real" SQL BE and now you are talking turkey. ;-)

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 7:43 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using ADO and Windows 7 SP1? Be careful!

I'm willing to bet that 95% of the things I wrote using ADO will work
just fine......

Web Front End.... 

;)

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:59 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Using ADO and Windows 7 SP1? Be careful!

I had a call from a client this morning.  Some code that I had written
using ADO to write records to a back end, code which has been working
for 2 or 3 years, was crashing with a message indicating that ADO
wasn't working.  Unfortunately, it was a bit of a panic situation and
I didn't get a screen dump of the message.  I putzed around with the
references and re-compiling, and got it to work.  Turns out that this
is probably an example of a known problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2517589

There is also a discussion (well, a bunch of bitching) about this in
the LinkedIn Access Developers group.  If I understand it correctly,
an Access database using ADO which is compiled on a computer running
Windows 7 SP1 will NOT run properly on any other version of Windows.
I`m running Win7 SP1 and my client is Win7, so I guess this was the
problem.

I wonder if I can send an invoice for my debugging time to Microsoft...

Doug
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