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"GAB" <news4_at_REMOVEbaxnet.net> wrote in message
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> Then do this:
>
> 1) Start with healthy OS, like Win2k Server
> 2) Install VisStudio Enterprise, namely VB
> 3) Update to SP3
> 4) Install either SQL7 or MSDE
> 5) Install MDAC 2.5 (you sure as hell can't re-install or un-install
> this so get it right first time)
> 6) Do some ADO stuff with SQL7 - everybody's happy
> 7) Uninstall SQL7 or MSDE cause after 12 months you've figured out it's
> just an upgraded MS Access <-- herein lies the culprit
> 8) Make decision to use a man's database, like Oracle
> 9) Try to build connect string with ADODC to Oracle
> 10) System will hang, with VB going to 100% CPU utilization. It'll stay
> like this for days if you let it.
>
> Debug/rebuild steps
>
> 1) Try to re-install MDAC 2.5 to catch missing or corrupt files. It
> immediately complains that you are one ignorant bastard for even
> thinking you've got to re-install MDAC, ever. Then it refuses do it.
> 2) Try to un-install MDAC so you can re-install it. No facility for un-
> installs. Period. Scan through registry lookin for MDAC stuff to
> delete, but you'll never catch it all.
> 3) Ok, uninstall VB - totally.
> 4) Re-install VB. Works fine.
> 5) Re-install SP3. Complains that "Visual Studio common dir does not
> exist" and fails.
> 6) Start up half-assed install of VB, and try some ADO stuff again.
> Hangs once again on connect string build.
> 7) Throw computer in lake. Cuss out MS development real loud like, so
> maybe they'll hear a customer for the first time.
> 8) Submit tons of bug reports to MS. Wait 3-4 weeks for reply. Reply
> is a question like "how fast is your cpu". Wait another 3-4 weeks for
> another stupid question, in order for them to answer you original
> question.
> 9) Respond to email from MS that development support will expire in 14
> days, and MS wants $2000 for renewal.
> 9) Drop support issue and start using Delphi and Oracle.
> 10) It works.
>
>
Received on Thu Jun 08 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT
