July 24, 1997

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Sybase login creation from PB

Question: How can I create a Sybase login from a PowerBuilder front-end application using sp_addlogin? The normal way of executing stored procedures ? for example, declare procname for procedure ?

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Storing Control Properties

Question: I need to store a full text box in a data base, so that later I can recover it with all its properties; is that possible or do I

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ActiveX & Data controls

Question: I Want to make my own data control navigator bar in a single OCX. My question is: How can i get the DataSource property to work.It needs to give

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Changing 2 fields

Question: Hi, I am working on a VB 4.0 project. The project involves changing 2 fields – The date field from 6 digits to 8 digits and zipcode field from

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Checking for File Existance

Question: How do you use VB to check to see if a file exists? Answer: The simplest way to do it is to try opening the file with these lines

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Using Multiple Data Control

Question: I have two Data controls on a form, Data1 and Data2, both with data bound text boxes on the form, linked to them. Based on a common field (also

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PowerBuilder 5.0 datastores

Question: I am 90 percent done building a product catalog using PB 5.0.2 and SQL Anywhere 5.5.I just added a feature that uses a datastore to retrieve pricing information and

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PowerBuilder lost scripts

Question: We are working with PB 5.0.02 Enterprise with anOracle server. The scripts are kept on a Novellserver version 4.x. We regenerate a PBL, and when we re-edit the object,one