Re: uptime (very OT)

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) spake thusly:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:20:33AM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> | * dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) spake thusly:
> | ...
> | > 
> | > The difference bewteen server and workstation is a couple registry
> | > keys and the price tag.  :-)
> | 
> | I used to think that, too, until a (shudder) VB/MSSQL app I wrote
> | refused to run on NT swerver (developed on WS). And yes, I made sure
> | all relevant DLLs had the same version etc...
> 
> Hmm, maybe that app (or it's MS-developed libraries) knew which key to
> look for and didn't want to work on the other system.  Other than
> that, I don't know.

Heh. I wish. The problem was that idjit who created the database used
non-standard [var]char fields -- M$ extensions for multibyte characters.
On NTws "select *" worked fine, on NTsrv it b0rked on the first 
non-standard field and returned only some of the columns... The 
not-so-surprising part is that M$ themselves apparently have no idea 
what's causing it, or why "select cast(badfield as varchar)" works.

Dima
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