Kasper On BI

While previewing my report i got a “An unexpected error occurred in Report Processing. Index was outside the bounds of the array.”. I couldn’t  my out of bounds index anywhere. The Index error exception popped up when i added a new field to the report and hit “View Report”. Apparently the report caches these columns in Preview mode. I hit the Refresh button in Preview mode and the report magically appeared. Now clicking View Report works also.... Read more

Last night i was installing Visual Studio 2005 on my VMWare image with MS Server 2003 r2, it wouldn’t work. On my AMD Turion mobile the install took ages, and then after 2 hours: “Error 1718. File was rejected by digital signature policy”.   The Cause: “This problem occurs if the Windows Installer process has insufficient contiguous virtual memory to verify that the .msi package or the .msp package is correctly signed.” which MS had fixed in... Read more

Great SQL Server 2008 demo, includes BI as a core pillar: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/overviewdemo/ Read more

Bill Gates People are often curious about which applications and technology I use, and if there are features in the new version of Office that have changed the way I work. Without a doubt, the 2007 Microsoft Office system enables me to get my work done more easily and quickly than before. If you visit my office, you will probably notice right away that I have three large flat screen displays that sit together and are synchronized... Read more

After some years it seems like the ebook readers are finally getting more and more mature, after seeing a program called “in de ban van het ding” yesterday which featured the Kindle my interest is newly sparked. Maybe it’s time to replace my book collection for an electronic device.   The kindle from amazon is great: Amazon’s kindle but you can’t order them in Europe. Philips daugther iRex has a european counterdevice calles the iLiad. Price is... Read more

Over the years we have moved from desktop, to client server, to 3-tier, to n-tier, to service orientation. In the process though many things have changed, but many habits have remained. Often this resistance to change is exactly that, habitual. However many times it is procedural. This article discusses what we are doing wrong, and possible solutions.   Full article at Code Project Read more