August 5, 2000

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) doesn’t store its data in a format you readily can use, and MSwouldn’t put the “Analyze and Fix” option on your menu if it wasn’t needed.To

SQL Sever 7.0 allows developers to execute commands against OLE DB data sources on different servers. In order to execute commands on remote servers, the SQL Server instance where the

There is an undocumented stored procedure that you can use to run a single command on all tables in a database. It is very useful when doing routine jobs on

In a previous tip, I showed how to swap two variables without using a temporary variable. There’s another version of this solution that applies to integral values only. Here it

C and C++ differ in their handling of enum types. While C allows you to assign a plain int to an enum variable, C++ doesn’t. Therefore, a C compiler will

The standard stream object cerr and its matching wide-character version, wcerr, are unbuffered. This means that they are automatically flushed after each operation; they do not buffer data. This feature

The Standard Library provides the pow() functions (declared in ) which takes two arguments of type double, x and y: double powl(double x, double y);pow() returns the value calculated of