Re[2]: [INTERFACES] Access 2000

I happened to mention a similar occurence to our 'local' Microsoft
(hereinafter referred to as M$) representative at a seminar yesterday
(B.O.) and his take on the issue is not ODBC, rather the culprit is
due to the internal rewrite that's gone into M$ Access 2000. His
reply went something like this:

M$ Access 2000 is now unicode-aware and requires MDAC 2.1 or higher -
unlike M$ Access 97, the only M$ Office product not unicoded in the 97
release. Because of the unicode (which is a two-byte character
encoding scheme - see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/officedev/off2000/defunicode.htm for
a definition) implementation, older Access databases must be
'imported' and updated - BUT this updating process does not update the
ODBC driver to recognize the fact that the linked tables are not
unicode-aware (i.e. a postgreSQL database) and therefore data in those
tables can't be modified since there is no provision for this scenario
in M$ sourcecode.

Based on this response, I assume M$ is aware of the issue. At least
the rep seems to be. It would be nice to know if there is something
to come of this and similar issues concerning updating and moving
forward.

Humbly,

Laszlo

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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Access 2000
Author: Robert Hiltibidal <rob(at)y2k(dot)state(dot)il(dot)us> at INTERNET
Date: 8/23/99 2:29 PM

So... all problems are solved with Office 2000?

-Rob

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>From: Moray McConnachie <Moray(dot)McConnachie(at)computing-services(dot)oxford(dot)ac(dot)uk>
>Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 17:28:59 +0100
>To: Byron Nikolaidis <byronn(at)solipsys(dot)com>
>Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Access 2000
>Cc: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
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>On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:16:38 -0400 Byron Nikolaidis
><byronn(at)solipsys(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Michael Doyle wrote:
>>
>> > I need help with Access 2000 and PostgreSQL...
>> >
>> > I have several databases running on my server (It's a FreeBSD server
>> > running Postgress 6.4) and Access 95 had no trouble acting as a
>> > front end to these databases
>> >
>> > However, I cannot create new Access 2000 databases to see either new
>> > or old databases on the server.
>> >
>> > Curiously, upgrading the Access 95 databases to Access 2000 lets them
>> > continue to see the linked tables.
>> >
>> > Something strange is going on with Access 2000 and ODBC interfaces.
>> > Any ideas on how to resolve this ?
>> >
>>
>> Do you see any error messages, either on screen or in any of the logfiles?
>
>Michael's problem is basically the same as I posted a few
>weeks back, and others have contacted me about it since. It
>appears to leave no error messages, but frankly I've given
>up and have no longer been looking.
>
>Some have said that all 3rd party ODBC drivers have had to
>be rewritten to co-operate with Access 2000's
>implementatation of ODBC, which is hardly brilliant!
>
>I put in a bug report to Microsoft, but so far no response.
>
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>Moray(dot)McConnachie(at)computing-services(dot)oxford(dot)ac(dot)uk
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