Article ID: 270704
Article Last Modified on 10/17/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Access 2000 Service Pack 1
This article was previously published under Q270704
SYMPTOMS
In Access 2000, when you run aggregate functions against decimal data types that appear in tables linked from an ODBC data source, you may receive the following error message:
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, install the latest Jet 4.0 service pack. For additional information about how to obtain and how to install the latest Jet 4.0 service pack, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
239114 How To: Obtain the Latest Service Pack for the Microsoft Jet 4.0 Database Engine
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Jet 4.0 Service Pack 6 (SP6).
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