Our organization is finally deploying Office 2010 to all our employees and as part of that deployment is compatibility testing with our current applications. Our crime analysts came by an interesting problem where ArcGIS 10 was having issues opening up an Excel 2010 file (xlsx). The culprit of this issue was the fact that … Continue reading
So as I mentioned before, I was lucky enough to have attended a BlackBerry 10 developer session and was able to obtain a development device called the Dev Alpha. However today when I tried to use it, it wouldn’t boot up and instead the LED indicator started flashing red. It wasn’t some random blinking though, … Continue reading
Just recently, I managed to obtain a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha device. However when I decided to boot it up today to do some dev work, I got a screen saying that the Dev Alpha program has ended. Luckily restarting it a few times had resolved the issue for now and I don’t get the … Continue reading
Whenever I have time at work for to do something specifically for myself (not very often), I try to read up some of the latest articles and tips on SQL Server. I ran into a very interesting one today that might make a big difference in some of the views and transformations that I have … Continue reading
In my previous post, I needed to get into a vendor SQL Server 2000 database that was locked down. For this situation, I am trying to access another database from the same vendor, but for this system, they are using SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. Again, due to the same draconian policies from the vendor, … Continue reading
So I ran into a slight problem while I was trying to access a vendor database that was running SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE). This database contained employee information that we wanted to use in automated batch jobs, hence why not just connect to it and access thed data in real-time and do what we … Continue reading
