Tag Archive for format

SYLK: File format is not valid

July 8, 2009 No comments

You can see the above message on attempting to open a CSV file in Microsft Excel. The cause is having “ID” as the very first characters in the file (case is important) because that causes a file type misidentification and CSV does not fit the application’s expectations for an SYLK format, an early spreadsheet file type used by Microsoft. More can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323626.

Software

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Watch where you store your virtual machines when using VMware on Linux

July 12, 2008 No comments

My experience is with Ubuntu on this one but I have found that you need to be careful as regards the file system used by the drive where you keep your virtual machines. If it is NTFS, VMware can fail to start a VM because it cannot create a virtual memory file while it presents as physical memory to a guest operating system. Use ext2 or ext3 and there should be no problem, even if that means formatting a drive to fulfill the need. That’s what I did and all was well thereafter.

Linux, Virtualisation, Windows

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SAS/Access and Oracle Timestamp format

April 25, 2007 No comments

Until SAS 9.2, SAS/Access will not support the Oracle timestamp format. There still is no word on when 9.2 might appear so it’s over to the SQL pass-through facility…

Databases, Programming

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