April 7, 1999

Retrieving database table names using SQL

Question: I’m a database administrator for a medium-sized company. I would like to be able to retrieve the names of the tables within the company’s database using SQL so that

General Programming

Question: I want to create a function that will calculate four values. I want to return these four values as an array back to an array in the main procedure.

Dates

Question: select issuelog.analysts,issuelog.helpdesk,isssuelog.issue.issuelog.customer.issuelog.status.issuelog.logged,issuelog.date FROM issuelogWHERE(((issuelog.date)like “*24/01/99*”))ORDER BY issuelog.helpdesk; How do I get it to search for a series of dates, such as the 24th, 25th, 26th etc., in one query?

Creating menu items in a running program

Question: Is it possible for a running program to dynamically create/add a menu or add a specific item to an existing menu based on an action by the program user?

SQL Statement

Question: I have a statement: “Select * from table order by price DESC” but I want only the top 50 price products, not all the list ordered by price. How

Slow view with lots of calculations

Question: I created a view that does a lot of calculations and references several tables. If I do a select * from linkview everything comes up instantaneosly. However, if I

Table Name Substitution with a variable

Question: I have data that is broken into multiple tables depending on the month. For example: 99jan table99feb table These tables are all built the same and are very large

SQL 6.5 or 7.0 Identity Problem

Question: I want to use replication between two SQL servers in which I used Identity properties in some tables. How can I preserve data integrity and maintain my application functionality

Execution parameter

Question: I want to run my VB5 app with different parameters, for example, like this: c:Myapp.exe -C to run in a mode I want to call “config-mode.” Is this possible