David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

This is completely off topic, but worth mentioning. I am spending this week at the Sydney office for meetings and while I was here, we had something very special come to visit us.

A while back, when the Halo 3 game was released, there were a number of short movies created to help promote the game. Of those short movies there were three live action movies filmed as a collaboration with Bungie Studios, Neill Blomkamp, WETA Digital and Origami Digital LLC.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

A number of years ago when I was working closely with the Great Plains development team in Fargo, I heard that everyone on the team had been given a book to read.  This book would help the team understand why it is important to work with designers when creating software, especially the user interface.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

If you have looked a DEXSQL.LOG file to see the communication between SQL Server and the Microsoft Dynamics GP application, you might have noticed messages with errors 5701 and 5703 being reported.  See the example below:

/*
/*  Date: 08/10/2009  Time: 20:09:49
SQLSTATE:(01000) Native Err:(<strong>5701</strong>) stmt(0):*/
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Changed database context to 'master'.*/
/*
/*  Date: 08/10/2009  Time: 20:09:49
SQLSTATE:(01000) Native Err:(<strong>5703</strong>) stmt(0):*/
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Changed language setting to us_english.*/
/*

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Sometimes Microsoft Dynamics GP reports unusual errors with temporary tables. Here are some example error messages that you might see:

An open operation on table ‘IV_Reconcile_PO_TEMP’ has an incorrect record length.

An open operation on table ‘PM_Inquiry_Summary_TEMP’ failed because the path does not exist.

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