Question: I have two columns in a table called “bak”: distance, and trig. The distance value is equal to 1/trig. When I perform the following query: update bakset distance = 1/trigwhere trig NULL it executes and gives the correct number, only without the decimal places. For example, one value of
Question: How can I get the number of records returned by a query without cycling through all the records and counting each one? Answer: Have you tried SELECT COUNT(*) FROM MyTable ? Alternatively, I think the number of rows is stored in sysxindexes.
Question: How can I get Exchange to forward e-mail to an AOL or ATT account automatically? We have traveling users who have AOL or ATT accounts and would like all of their company e-mail automatically forwarded to “[email protected],” for example. Answer: What I would do is go to the Exchange
Question: I am a student. Is there a way to load a database into Oracle to run my exercises? Answer: I’m not sure I can help you because there’s more than one way to skin that cat, but I’d think there’s a utility called SQL Loader that moves text files
Question: I need your assistance to solve the following: I am using an RDO connection to connect to a SQL 7.0 database, and I am using the server-side cursor technique to get data and update it. The problem is, whenever I do a RollBack and try to check the cursor,
Question: How do I merge two values from separate fields using SQL? An example would be taking the LastName field and placing it before the FirstName field like this: “LastName, FirstName”. I would then like to generate a whole new field based on this result. Answer: You can accomplish your
Question: How do I do a “group by” SQL statement? I want to return all rows and columns with ** records. Here is the data sample: columnA columnB columnCAAA 2334 jan/01/99 **AAA 4 mar/05/99 BBB 32 feb/20/99 BBB 3 feb/23/99BBB 32 feb/24/99 **CCC 32439 jan/23/99 **DDD 666 may/01/99 EEE 444
Question: I am having trouble getting the following type of join to work. I have three tables: Application, College_hist, and School_Info. Application has student ID numbers that identify the person we want the info on College_hist has entries (0 or more) of previous school information. If they have entries, we
Question: I have upgraded from Outlook Express to Outlook 98. Previously I was able to leave messages to a particular e-mail recipient on the server. With Outlook 98 I no longer have that option in the rules. How do I leave a message on the server with Outlook 98? Answer: