Hmmm. I just re-read Ian's statement about MDAC 2.6 and have to send this
warning.
We just updated our Web server software (WebSite) and add Chilisoft to a
couple of the systems for ASP support. In the process, Chilisoft complained
that I wasn't on the latest MDAC and suggested 2.5. Being the good "do
bee", I went to MS and got the LATEST -- 2.6 sp1 -- and promptly installed
it. That was last Sunday and all seemed well. Same on Monday. Same on
Tuesday. I'm in the States, so I wasn't here on Wednesday (4th of July --
holiday), but everything seemed okay. When I got in on Thursday, it was off
to you know where in a hand basket. SQL Server was crawling (using 500M of
RAM and climbing -- usual is less than 200M). Web sites that needed access
where timing out. Customers were not happy campers. SQL was giving me all
sorts of weird errors -- Enterprise Manager would disconnect from the
server, log files were locked and not accessible meaning no changes to the
databases. I rummaged around the KB at MS and found some obscure comment
that 2.6 might throw these errors in "limited situations." The fix was to
open a support incident with them (pay bucks and maybe you'll get a credit)
or downgrade to 2.5. I downloaded 2.5 sp2 and installed it on the
servers -- now all is well.
I'm running NT4 sp6a, so perhaps 2.6 sp1 is for W2K only???? I know that
the above is with a Web server and not iMAIL, but thought I'd let you know
my experience.
Oh, and if someone can tell me what happened, I'd appreciated it (smile).
Bob Ferguson
Sound Data, Inc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Jeffrey J. Young
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 10:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [imail] Imail 7.02 and External Database Bug Found
Ian,
JET and MDAC can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/data. Sorry I didn't
post that before. But it may be a legit Imail bug. I'll check into it.
jeff
>>Ian,
>> Sounds like your MDAC and Jet drivers may need to be updated. We
recommend
>>MDAC 2.6 and Jet4.0SP3. Also, Are you using Access or SQL Server for your
>>external? It does sound like Externalizer should meet your needs. If you
>>have any questions about it, I'd be glad to answer them, As I wrote it. :)
>>And yes, I'm working on the documentation and an Imail v7 version. :)
This is good news - and externalizer will help me with 75+ domains too (I am
sure).
Forever in the past however I was never able to get iMail to work with an
external database - it would never create a table (and people kept saying it
should). Even when creating a new domain from scratch. After getting a
domain connected to a data source it would stop working 'some time later'.
And adding users would 'just fail'.
Anyone have any tricks - and 7.02 does it have improvements in the external
database connection? If I can get one stable domain I can then push all the
others over with externalizer - right?
Ian
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Slade Grove
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 1:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [imail] Imail 7.02 and External Database Bug Found
Lee:
We have over 130 domains setup currently on Imail. I used Ron's applet
and found it extremely simple to use. We were able the migrate
everything over an MS SQL 2000 Exterprise server within a matter of
minutes without any errors. The readme file of the app does need updated
to reflect changes made on application itself. It was well worth the
price for the applet.
We had everything switched over, the reg cleaned, and the systems back
online within about 15 minutes.
It really was pretty simple.
Always...
Slade @ Here, Inc.
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