As you will remember, I had mentioned about Microsoft SQL Server ODBC Driver in my earlier blog post on October 24th, 2011. It is released 🙂 You can download Microsoft® SQL Server® ODBC Driver for Linux V 1.0 from the link below : http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28160 Enjoy 🙂

Read More → Microsoft® SQL Server® ODBC Driver for Linux V 1.0 is released :)

Virtual Labs enable you to quickly evaluate and test Microsoft’s newest products and technologies through a series of guided, hands-on labs that you can complete in 90 minutes or less. There is no complex setup or installation required, and you can use Virtual Labs online immediately, free. Here’s a screenshot that I took to show […]

Read More → SQL Server 2012 (codename Denali) – Virtual Labs are ready. Just click and start working on a pre-installed SQL Server 2012 virtual machines for free :)

If you hit to the 65.536 rows limitation in Excel  (97-2000) XLS file format, we have good news 🙂 As you know the 65.536 rows limit in an Excel sheet has been removed with Office 2007/2010 with the new Excel format XLSX. But SQL Server Reporting Services was lack of XLSX file export support. With […]

Read More → SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS): Reporting Services in SQL Server 2012 (codename “Denali”) will support XLSX, DOCX formats. Bye bye 65536 rows limit in XLS files ;)

If you’ve read my previous blog post “Accessing Excel files on a x64 machine” and you loved our ACE OLEDB Provider, I want to let you know that we released “Access Database Engine 2010 Service Pack 1“. This update is also available in Windows Update. That means if you’ve already installed Access Database Engine 2010 and […]

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If you’ve compiled/re-compiled an ADO application on a Windows 7 Service Pack 1-based computer and the app does not run on down-level operating systems with the any of the error messages below, please see our new KB article published today (16th of March, 2011) : Error message 1 REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG (0x80040154) Error message 2 E_POINTER (0x80004003) […]

Read More → REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG (0x80040154), E_POINTER (0x80004003), E_NOINTERFACE (0x80004002), Unable to cast COM object of type ‘System.__ComObject’ to interface type ‘ADODB.Connection’ error codes/messages

Our RTM build number of .NET Framework 4.0 is 4.0.30319.1 . After appyling “Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1” to your Visual Studio 2010, you will see that some DLLs in your .NET 4.0 upgraded from 4.0.30319.1 to 4.0.30319.225 . For example check your C:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\clr.dll’s version (for x64 machines) or C:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319 (for x86 machines) by […]

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