December 2012 - Posts

• BI Beginner: Creating formulas in Excel

  Most people haven’t created a formula in Excel using the Equation Editor. If you are writing specifications for what statistical analyses must be performed on a project, it is appropriate to begin with a professional looking formula. Excel’s Equation Read More... Posted Monday, December 24, 2012 10:30 PM by John Paul Cook | 0 Comments

• Scammers on the loose pretending to be Microsoft

  UPDATE: The scammers called back today informing me that my computer had been sending “error messages for quite a long time”! They identified themselves as the “Technical Maintenance Department”. I was told that the count at the top of my Event Viewer Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2012 7:58 PM by John Paul Cook | 3 Comments

• Visual Studio 2012 and Oracle Development Environment

  Creating a complete environment for developing .NET applications that target Oracle requires a little planning and understanding of how Oracle connectivity works. You need to be methodical and test along the way so that you aren’t trying to troubleshoot Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 12, 2012 4:29 PM by John Paul Cook | 13 Comments

• Windows 8 SDK and Orca

  The Windows 8 SDK has a new version of Orca for those of us who edit msi files. The download is for a small executable, sdksetup.exe which causes the following dialog box to appear. If you only want Orca and you don’t want to install the SDK, override Read More... Posted Sunday, December 09, 2012 7:07 PM by John Paul Cook | 0 Comments