March 6, 2001

The amount of time it takes to retrieve data blocks is proportionate to the number of extents in the table. Ideally, a table should have one to three extents. Run

The class JFileChooser inside javax.swing.* can be customized to display your own labels using the UIManager.put() method. It is a static method that takes an Object key (Original value) and

To eliminate duplicate values in a collection, Java provides it own API. HashSet (java.util.*) is the class which implements Set interface. import java.util.*;class Duplicate{ static void main(String[]arr){ HashSet set=new HashSet();

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You may find that you want to know something about the form that contains the control you wish to use. You could do this by passing a reference to the

Visual Basic lacks the ability to make a file smaller without having to recreate it. But it is possible to use the SetEndOfFile API. Here is a function for it:

The following recursive function allows users to do an expand all via apopup menu: Public Sub ExpandAll(ByVal aNode As Node) Dim l_Counter As Long Dim l_Children As Long Dim temp_Node

One easy way to implement a generic name property of a class is to make a property procedure with TypeName function. Public Property Get Name() As String Name = TypeName(Me)End

My benchmarking shows that ToggleCase can crunch through a 2,000,000character string in under 4 seconds on a Pentium II. Public Function ToggleCase(ByVal strData As String) As String ‘This technique gets