Windows Vista 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.

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

T

 

[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.
>
> 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

 

[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.