"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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> Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> > Darren New wrote:
> >
> >>> Only hyper-nerds are going to be able to get anything remotely useful
> >>> out of a dump file. To everybody else, it's just wasted disk space.
> >>
> >> Generally, the source code is sufficient.
> >
> > Cool. Let me just contact the makers of every device driver I'm running
> > and we can see where th... no, wait, that won't work. ;-)
>
> Or send them the core file.

I had IBM once insist that I attach a debugger to the application that was
crashing, so they could get detailed stack anaylsis.

Let's see, attach a debugger to my production SQL Server, just so I can
track a problem with one ODBC driver. I think not.

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