* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:20:33AM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > | * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 -- The wombat is a mixture of chalk and clay used for respiration. -- MegaHal