I need to roll back to mdac 2.8 (instead of the 2.8 sp1/2) i currently have installed. I cant believe Microsoft doesnt have a program for this. Any help is greatly appreciated

hi there, can you follow the below post and let us know if it was helpful.http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/228253-46-mdac-uninstallsainath windows driver development.

Hi, Why would you like to uninstall it? MDAC 2.8 is a built-in component in Windows Server 2003. Only MDAC 2.8 SP2 can be installed on Windows Server 2003. However, I am afraid that we cannot simply remove MDAC 2.8 SP2. The Microsoft Data Access Components are system components, and installing MDAC should be considered similar to a system upgrade. You cannot remove MDAC without replacing operating system files that were upgraded by the MDAC installer. Many applications, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, SQL Server, and Office require MDAC for data binding and other application functions. Removing MDAC will negatively impact or break these applications. Tim Quan - MSFT

every since we updated mdac to 2.8 sp1 we have had nothing weird db problems. I need to roll it back to MDAC 2.8 (NO SP1) the one before the service pack so our programs will work again.

hi there, can you follow the below post and let us know if it was helpful. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/228253-46-mdac-uninstall sainath windows driver development. i tried that but its for mdac 2.6 and mdac 2.7 im goign to try manually unregistering all the dlls with component checker tool and regsvr32 edit the registry version (new install should rebuild it) remove the dlls then i will install mdac 2.8 (regular no sp1) and hope it works