November 30, 1999

Question: Can I take a string that is held in a table and use it as part of a SELECT statement? I need to do this because I have a

Question: I have two databases, each on a separate machine in a network. I want to generate a report extracting data from table1 in database1 and table2 in database2. How

Question: I have created a database of journal articles and want to offer users the ability to search the Author field for the surnames of authors. Most of the articles

Question: Can the latest version of ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) read and write an XML file as a recordset? Answer: Ah, let me qualify that: ADO 2.1 can currently produce

Question: How can I modify and update XML docs that are stored in the cache using a DCOM model (client side)? Answer: Given that caching is an IIS (Internet Information

Question: How do I truncate the last five characters in a field? (The string length varies from row to row.) Answer: Try something along these lines: select left(myfield, datalength(myfield)-5)

Question: How do I force a linefeed character using SQL? I created a report (see below) but when I e-mailed this report from Unix the carriage return was not interpreted

Question: I am trying to code an event that will transfer information from the current form into the display of another form. Information like company name and address, and contact

Question: Does XML work with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications)? I’m looking for a quick and easy way to store variable information that will be static once it has been