uhhhh, well, that does happen sometimes around the water cooler... 😉

David Korb (1/20/2010)

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"...when you spend time helping others, you also improve your own skills."

To go off on a bit of a tangent:

This is why the one-room schoolhouse is a superior...

Fatal Exception Error (1/20/2010)

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Lynn Pettis (1/20/2010)

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It isn't just the QotD that you can learn from, but also the discussion that may follow (as long as you ignore the complaints).

Does SSC...

But you...

I'll agree with restarting the server (or the instance of SQL Server, could be faster and work just as well).

Okay Chad, copied your post to the thread I had started that...

Chad,

Thank you. Turned out I needed to make a couple of changes to the properties for the MSDASQL provider. Didn't have to do that on the x32 linked...

Chad Crawford (1/20/2010)

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Lynn Pettis (1/20/2010)

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Have to ask, are you running SQL Server 2005 x64 or SQL Server 2005 x32? If you got the linked server to work using...

Thinking about it, all this MySQL stuff belongs over here.

Should get this techie stuff off The Thread.

Chad, Can you also get me the settings for the ODBC Driver?

GilaMonster (1/20/2010)

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True, but in general I...

John Rowan (1/20/2010)

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Huh, kind of ironic, but this was your 420th post......

For the record, I am not pointing this out to promote 420 logic...just thought it was interesting...

LSAdvantage (1/20/2010)

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talltop-969015 (1/20/2010)

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LSAdvantage (1/20/2010)

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Just to put another spin on the subject that was raised about how people should not be providing free advice on a forum during work hours. ...

jswong05 (1/20/2010)

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That is exactly the message we need in the U. S. of A. Not just to technical people, also to the entire company from CEO to clerk, who work...

scott williams-465021 (1/20/2010)

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Thanks for all the posts. So even though the database appeared totally "out of wack" - technical term, once the server was restarted the database seems good....