Re: uptime (very OT)
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:45:35PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
| * 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.
Heh. Wow. Interesting. I originally thought that it didn't run or
something.
-D
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