My application uses sqldmo to retrieve the list of sql servers in the
network, it works fine in some machines, but it is crashing the
application in others, no error and no exception, it shuts down the
application. It fails in the following line:

SQLDMO.NameList sqlServers = sqlApp.ListAvailableSQLServers();

any ideas?

thanks

musachy

I don't really know, but ListAvailableSQLServers uses ODBC, so you
might want to check if the problem machines have the same version of
ODBC/MDAC as the others. Apart from that, it would be worth checking if
there are any general network issues that affect those machines, such
as name resolution problems, disabled network services etc.

And Books Online mentions that ListAvailableSQLServers doesn't support
connection pooling, so that could be something to check as well.

Simon

There used to be a problem in DMO as well, make sure you updated your client
side as well with the latest SQL Server service pack, this has been fixed
long time ago, I think it was fixed in 2000 SP1.

GertD@SQLDev.Net

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"Simon Hayes" <sql@hayes.ch> wrote in message
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>I don't really know, but ListAvailableSQLServers uses ODBC, so you
> might want to check if the problem machines have the same version of
> ODBC/MDAC as the others. Apart from that, it would be worth checking if
> there are any general network issues that affect those machines, such
> as name resolution problems, disabled network services etc.
>
> And Books Online mentions that ListAvailableSQLServers doesn't support
> connection pooling, so that could be something to check as well.
>
> Simon
>