MICROSOFT INVESTING HEAVILY IN ACCESS

[Brendan Reynolds]

If I want to retrieve data from an MDB via ADO, I use a "Jet OLEDB data
provider". But if I want to retrieve data from the same MDB via ODBC, I get
to use the "Microsoft Access Driver". And as these are Microsoft's terms,
and Microsoft own both Access and Jet, can I even claim that they are
"wrong"? I guess they get to call it whatever they please, it belongs to
them after all.

Mind you, I still say that calling the database engine on the Pocket PC
"Pocket Access" is a contender for great misnomers of our time!

--
Brendan Reynolds (MVP)
http://brenreyn.blogspot.com

The spammers and script-kiddies have succeeded in making it impossible for
me to use a real e-mail address in public newsgroups. E-mail replies to
this post will be deleted without being read. Any e-mail claiming to be
from brenreyn at indigo dot ie that is not digitally signed by me with a
GlobalSign digital certificate is a forgery and should be deleted without
being read. Follow-up questions should in general be posted to the
newsgroup, but if you have a good reason to send me e-mail, you'll find
a useable e-mail address at the URL above.

 

[Jamie Collins]

the term "Access database" is widely used, even by Microsoft, to refer
to a "Jet database" where there is no Access involved at all -- like ".asp
pages with an Access database".

And, the usage is so imprecise, so often, that it is useless to argue
semantics.

Thanks, Larry.

I wish it were otherwise but you are probably correct <g>.

Jamie.

--