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 OpenDataSource quandary

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FlyingAce
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Posted - 2007-08-17 : 12:22:43
I am trying to open and query a Microsoft Access "like" database from SQL Server 2000 using OpenDataSource. This will work for a little while, but if I am to update my ASP.NET code base I have to completely reboot the machine for these queries to work again. I also have two reboot the machine periodically because this functionality decides to crap out. I am doing this from a stored procedure. My code looks like this:

DECLARE @SelectCode varchar(5000)
SET @SelectCode =
'SELECT CONVERT(varchar, Value) AS UnitName FROM
OPENDATASOURCE(''Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0'', ''Data Source = "' + @Path + @DataFile + '.fcd";User ID=Admin;Password=;'')...Properties WHERE Property LIKE ''UnitName'''
EXEC(@SelectCode)

Now, when I am developing on my local machine that uses Windows Authentication, I have absolutely no problems, unless the source file has a schema error.

Any ideas?

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2007-08-18 : 19:02:14
See www.connectionstrings.com for proper setup of connection string.



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