> I think I've found a bug in the SP5 (4.00.4331.4) provider; it's no
> longer possible to determine whether a column allows nulls from the
> field properties. My apps use this information as visual feedback to
> show mandatory fields and it suddenly stopped working after the
> upgrade.

> This has been possible since the Jet 4.0 provider was issue and works
> correctly in both SP3 (4.00.2927.2) and SP4 (4.00.3714.0). It's
> definitely the provider as if I substitute back the SP4 version it
> works again.

> Hope this helps someone else from tearing their hair out :-)

> Regards

> Paul Hatcher, MCSD
> Principal Consultant
> Graduate Associates Ltd