MsAccess and IA64

[Brian]

Is there any way to update an access database on an Itanium
machine(IA64)? I noticed that there is no 64 bit Jet Driver available
from Microsoft :
'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local
machine

I am thinking there might be a way to install a 32 bit version of the
drivers utilizing WOW and create an x86 assembly that does this.
Before I dive in can anyone see an issue with this or has anyone got a
workaround?

Thanks,
Brian

[Mark Rae]

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Is there any way to update an access database on an Itanium
machine(IA64)? I noticed that there is no 64 bit Jet Driver available
from Microsoft :
'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local
machine

I am thinking there might be a way to install a 32 bit version of the
drivers utilizing WOW and create an x86 assembly that does this.
Before I dive in can anyone see an issue with this or has anyone got a
workaround?

Firstly, you are right that there is no 64-bit version of the Jet OLEDB
driver - in fact, Jet is now completely deprecated:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...components.asp

This means, AFAIK, that a 64-bit app is not going to be able to work
natively with Jet databases.

I have a similar situation with a current project where I'm upgrading an old
VB6 app to C# v2. Forcing it to compile to a 32-bit app works perfectly - no
additional drivers or whatever need to be installed.

I haven't tried to create a separate x86 assembly to do the Jet stuff, but I
imagine that this would be OK...

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