HOWTO: Search for MDAC 1.5 Articles by Article Topic/Keyword

• Microsoft Data Access Components, version 1.5

SUMMARY

The Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) is categorized by using keywords. This article lists the keywords specific to articles in the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) collection, which includes the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MDAC is a collection of database technologies installed via one standalone setup/EXE. The technologies included with MDAC include ODBC, OLE DB, ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) and the Remote Data Service (RDS). With MDAC 1.5, the Remote Data Service was renamed and was previously known as the Advanced Data Connector (ADC).

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MDAC Keywords

Each KB article in the MDAC collection may contain one or more product- specific keywords that place the article in an appropriate category.

In some cases, you can use the asterisk (*) wildcard to find articles that fall into the general subcategory.

Here are the topics and the corresponding keywords. The minor topics are in the indented list under each major topic.

   Major Topic                                        KBSubcategory
         Minor Topic                                  Keyword
   ----------------------------------------------------------------

   General:
       General MDAC Product Info                      mdacGenInfo
       MDAC Documentation                             mdacDoc
       Miscellaneous                                  mdacMisc
       Setup/Install                                  mdacSetup
       Redistribution                                 mdacRedist
       MDAC SQL                                       mdacsql

   Buglist and Fixlist:
       MDAC 1.5 Bug                                   mdac15Bug
       MDAC 1.5 Fixed Bug                             mdac15Fix
       MDAC 2.0 Bug                                   mdac20Bug
       MDAC 2.0 Fixed Bug                             mdac20Fix

Product-Specific Keywords

You can use the keywords to organize MDAC articles or to search for specific groups of MDAC articles. For information about keywords for other Microsoft developer products, please query the Microsoft Knowledge Base using these keywords:

   dskbguide and kbkeyword

KB-Wide Keywords

Each article in the MDAC collection also contains at least one generic, KB- wide keyword. These keywords are standard throughout the Microsoft Knowledge Base, appearing in all KB articles, regardless of product. You can use these keywords to organize all KB articles or to search for articles across several Microsoft products. For more information about these keywords, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q94671
   TITLE     : Categories and Keywords for All Knowledge Base Articles

REFERENCES

The MDAC home page is located at: http://www.microsoft.com/data

For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base for keywords used for specific MDAC technologies:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q150286
   TITLE     : How to Search for ODBC Articles by Topic/Keyword

   ARTICLE-ID: Q179300
   TITLE     : HOWTO: Search for OLE DB Articles by Topic/Keyword

   ARTICLE-ID: Q168337
   TITLE     : HOWTO: Search for ADO Articles by Topic/Keyword

   ARTICLE-ID: Q174564
   TITLE     : HOWTO: Search for RDS Articles by Topic/Keyword

Keywords          : mdacGenInfo mdacMisc
Version           : WINDOWS:1.5
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbhowto