{"id":7483,"date":"2020-10-17T22:10:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T22:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=7483"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:18:09","slug":"beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/17\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-129\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond good ol\u2019 Run key, Part 129"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I rediscovered it in December 2025 \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After checking my post history I noticed I had described it before &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/13\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-111\/\">here<\/a>. So, the below is a dup \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Old Post<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Browsing through windows libraries I came across a few that had an intriguingly named function being resolved during run-time: DllBidEntryPoint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The libraries referencing this API are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>msado15.dll<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>msadomd.dll<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>msadox.dll<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>msadrh15.dll<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>msadce.dll<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>msadco.dll<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>msadds.dll<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>msdaprst.dll<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>msdarem.dll<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>msdaora.dll<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>msdasql.dll<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>msdatl3.dll<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>oledb32.dll<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>sqloledb.dll<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As usual, the first thing was to go to Google and soon I discovered that it&#8217;s a part of a documented <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/previous-versions\/sql\/sql-server-2008\/cc765421(v=sql.100)\">tracing interface used by SQL Server<\/a> called Built-in Diagnostics (BID).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One can use one of these keys:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\BidInterface\\Loader<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\software\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\BidInterface\\Loader<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>and add &#8216;:Path &#8216; value name pointing to a DLL that will act as a tracing DLL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As usual, the linked document contains all the gore details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update I rediscovered it in December 2025 \ud83d\ude42 After checking my post history I noticed I had described it before &#8211; here. So, the below is a dup \ud83d\ude42 Old Post Browsing through windows libraries I came across a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/17\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-129\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10275,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions\/10275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}