vividly nonsensical » IIS7.5 http://www.jirc.com it just makes nonsense Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:57:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Where did all the ODBC Drivers go from Windows Server 2008 64bit http://www.jirc.com/2009/12/04/where-did-all-the-odbc-drivers-go-from-windows-server-2008-64bit/ http://www.jirc.com/2009/12/04/where-did-all-the-odbc-drivers-go-from-windows-server-2008-64bit/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:17:46 +0000 mvarre http://www.jirc.com/?p=439 So I’m in the process of moving all the sites leftover on my old 32bit Server 2003 running IIS6. I’m moving everything to Server 2008 R2 64bit.  I am pretty sure I’m going to end up choosing the of Server 2008.  So far it seems to do everything I need at a huge discount to Standard Edition.

I would have expected there to be no problems with most of them. I started out with a dinky little site that uses a small Access Database.  This site uses a standard to access the .mdb. I proceed to go to the Administrative Tools and open the Data Source Administrator window and add a new for the .mdb and lo and behold I see the following nearly empty window:

odbcempty

<– This of course is no good! Where are all the other data drivers? Apparently all the regular ones we are used to seeing in 32bit no longer exist as 64bit drivers.  The trick is to execute %windir%\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe.


odbcfull <– This will give you the ability to add the rest of the 32bit Data Sources such as Access (.mdb).




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