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Michael D. Long wrote:
>
> Oracle is conveniently not pointing out two important factors:
>
> 1) The problem lies with JET, not with the persistent storage.
>
> 2) The reason that most developers use JET for dealing with
> desktop database formats is that *they are cheap* and do
> not want to incur a per seat run-time fee.
>
> In order to bypass the problem when working with Oracle or
> SQL Server (et. al.), you will need to avoid using DAO/JET
> and recode to use ODBCDirect, RDO, ODBC API, ADO,
> Oracle Objects, etc. - each of which has bugs and/or
> limitations that you must learn to overcome.
>
> Michael D. Long
> http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/heights/9478/
>
Well, Mike, you're wrong. The problem doesn't appear with ODBC data sources. Try it.
Regards,
S.Y. Received on Wed Sep 02 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT