Microsoft KB Archive/229578

= FP2000: Database Connection with Parenthesis Disappears =

Article ID: 229578

Article Last Modified on 10/1/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q229578



SYMPTOMS
After you create a database connection that has a close parenthesis (such as ")" without quotation marks) in it, the connection verifies.

However, when returning to the Database tab in Web Settings, the connection does not appear.

The connection is also not listed in the list of database connections in the Database Results Wizard.



CAUSE
If you use a close parenthesis in a database connection name, the connection is not valid, and will not appear in either dialog box.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
To work around this issue, avoid parenthesis in your database connection names. It is generally not a good idea to use non-standard characters (characters that are not letters or numbers) to refer to database connections.

To work around this issue, you may use a dash (-) to represent the necessary character in your database name.

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