HELP- Desperate for ODBC Drivers

[Turgidson]

I am desperate to find an exact recipe returning ODBC functionality to my new Vista 64 computer. I have hundreds of data management scripts all using ODBC to grab data from Access, Excel, and Oracle files for analysis in Stata or SAS. But in Vista 64, I only see a driver for SQL. I was using XP x64 in my old computer, and I had a list of drivers a yard long that included all my data sources in several languages.

 

I need simple explicit directions to some file I can download from Microsoft that will install all the needed ODBC drivers and get my data connections back. On forums like this, I see bits and pieces of an answer, but mostly a lot of anger over this issue.:mad:

 

If anyone has solved this problem, I'd appreciate the info. Thanks.

 

T

[Guest gls858]

Re: HELP- Desperate for ODBC Drivers

 

Turgidson wrote:

> I am desperate to find an exact recipe returning ODBC functionality to

> my new Vista 64 computer. I have hundreds of data management scripts

> all using ODBC to grab data from Access, Excel, and Oracle files for

> analysis in Stata or SAS. But in Vista 64, I only see a driver for SQL.

> I was using XP x64 in my old computer, and I had a list of drivers a

> yard long that included all my data sources in several languages.

>

> I need simple explicit directions to some file I can download from

> Microsoft that will install all the needed ODBC drivers and get my data

> connections back. On forums like this, I see bits and pieces of an

> answer, but mostly a lot of anger over this issue.:mad:

>

> If anyone has solved this problem, I'd appreciate the info. Thanks.

>

> T

>

>

 

I found this message on one of the MS forums check the 5th message in

the thread. I have no idea if it will work just found it with google.

 

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=535128&SiteID=1

 

gls858

[Guest the wharf rat]

Re: HELP- Desperate for ODBC Drivers

 

In article <Turgidson.3cqwkm@news.home.local>,

Turgidson <Turgidson.3cqwkm@news.home.local> wrote:

>

>If anyone has solved this problem, I'd appreciate the info. Thanks.

 

For Oracle you'll need patch #5699495 . You'll need a valid

Oracle support contract ("support identifier") since AFAIK it's only

available from metalink.