LaRhonda
Fri Oct 01 14:42:36 CDT 2004
Bill thanks. So you do have experience with using Visual Basic.NET to access
SQL Server 7?
"William (Bill) Vaughn" <billvaRemoveThis@nwlink.com> wrote in message
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> MSDE supports views and you can execute DTS and run SQL jobs against it.
> However, the SqlClient provider in .NET can connect to SQL Server 7.0 and
> later.
>
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> "LaRhonda Johnson" <larhondajohnson@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > Sahil,
> >
> > Thank you for your response. I work for a large corporation that has
> > standard builds for our servers. We currently have an NT 4 DB server and
> > our
> > DBA's are only supporting SQL Server 2000 builds now for Win2K and
> > greater.
> > And of course given the hardware configuration of our DB server and our
> > LAN
> > services folks require that we upgrade our existing hardware before
> > upgrading our OS. So we would have to purchase a new server to upgrade
to
> > SQL Server 2000 and are trying to avoid that cost at this time. As for
> > MSDE,
> > we have a very complex database using views, DTS, SQL jobs ect., and I
got
> > the impression that MSDE did not offer all of the features as SQL Server
> > 2000.
> >
> > "Sahil Malik" <contactmethrumyblog@nospam.com> wrote in message
> > news:ufEKGxqpEHA.3424@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> >> Why not SQL Server 2000? If licensing is an issue, have you checked out
> >> MSDE?
> >>
> >> - Sahil Malik
> >> You can reach me thru my blog -
> >>
http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik
> >>
> >>
> >> "LaRhonda Johnson" <larhondajohnson@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >> news:e6Y$iLqpEHA.3988@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> >> >I am starting a .NET project and am wondering if anyone has experience
> > with
> >> > using ADO.NET to access a SQL Server 7/NT server. If so, were there
> > any
> >> > issues?
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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