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Inserting Images to SQL Using a SP and N-tier App

Question: I am in the process of creating an n-tier database application and am stuck at storing images to the SQL Server database. Any help would be appreciated. Obviously, I

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SQL Standard for Concatenation

Question: What is the SQL standard for concatenation? Answer: In SQL Server, you can do something like SELECT “Me” + “You” gets you MeYou In Oracle, I believe the symbol

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Performing a Word Search in SQL

Question: How do I perform a word search in SQL? I want to find all rows containing the word “time” by itself and not any rows containing “time” as part

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Converting from Varchar to Number

Question: I have a table that contains numbers defined as varchar. How do I convert from varchar to number? Answer: Try using the CONVERT function. If that is not an

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Asynchronous Processing

Question: I have written an ActiveX EXE. that handles Batch Reporting requirements on a large amount of data. Even though it is an Out-of-Process “server”, it still seems to execute

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Overriding a Deprecated Function

Question: I have a class that extends one class and implements an interface.The interface requires a getName() method.At the same time the class I am extending has a getName() functionthat

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Finding the Identity Fields

Question: I am working on a database program that will insert random data into all fields in the database. What the program is supposed to do is look for field

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Procedures Crossing Servers

Question: I am creating a data warehouse and need to SELECT and INSERT data across servers using SQL Server 6.5. Is there any way I can code this in my

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Moving the Master and MSDB Databases

Question: How can I move the master and msdb database devices to another disk in SQL Server 6.5? Can I mirror them and then unmirror them, swapping to the mirror

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Toolbar Icon Without a Menu Item

Question: How do I create a toolbar button without also creating a menu item? Answer: Add a menu item as normal and then set the toolbar details for the menu

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yymmdd-to-yyyymmdd Date Format

Question: Is there a way to automatically convert the date format from yymmdd to yyyymmdd? Answer: Yes there is. Check out the STYLE argument of the CONVERT function, which displays

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Listview Control Colors

Question: I have a number of bitmaps displayed in the Listview control. However the colors are limited and are very different when they are displayed in a graphics program. Is

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Developing Windows CE Apps

Question: Can Visual FoxPro be used to develop applications for Windows CE? Answer: No, Visual FoxPro cannot be used to develop applications for Windows CE. However, you could develop VFP

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Unable to Update Cursor

Question: When I try to build an app (.exe) I get the error message “Cannot update the cursor.” All the prg, menu, and forms seem to work (i.e., compile with

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Sending Internet E-mail

Question: I am trying to send e-mail from my PowerBuilder app to an e-mail address that is not in my address book; it’s an Internet e-mail address. I do not

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Different Toolbar Text from Toolbar Tip Text

Question: How do I get short names for my toolbar text, but longer text for the toolbar tips? For example, I’d like the toolbar tip to read “Usage Statistics” but

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Message Box for Unsaved Changes

Question: How do I get a message box to appear if users have not saved their work, asking them if they want to save their work? (I am using PowerBuilder

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SQL Query in FoxPro Reports

Question: I am doing calculations in reports using SQL and FoxPro 2.6 for Windows. My SQL query works fine, except for one thing. I want to display information in the

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Changed Permission Properties

Question: When I do a property box on a file/directory, the Security sheet changes from the normal (NT4, SP0) one to a new one. Can you explain this? (I have

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Quickly clear a portion of an array

The fastest way to clear an array is to ReDim (if the array is dynamic) or Erase it (if the array is Static). However, if you want to clear a

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Suppress TreeView’s tooltips

By default, all TreeView controls whose version number is 4.70 or higher display the text of the node under the cursor if the node itself isn’t completely visible. You can

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Highlight the contents of a control on entry

You probably already know that you can highlight the contents of any textbox by adding two lines of code in its GotFocus event: Private Sub Text1_GotFocus() Text1.SelStart = 0 Text1.SelLength

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Build a simple browser for icons

Winodws uses a special browser to show all icons contained in a file and offers the end user the possibility to choose an icon from it. You can add this

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Create Preview Windows in HTML Pages

Here is a simple way to provide preview window functionality in your Web pages. The idea is to have some kind of text area on the HTML pagewhere user can

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Start SQLServer Dynamically with
VB and SQL-DMO Objects

Create a new standard exe project and add reference of sqldmo.rll. This file can be found in BinnResources1033sqldmo.rll under SqlServer70 directory.Now add following code and declaration in your form’s code:

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What Reflection Means in Java

Through reflection, Java code can obtain information about, and performoperations on, data fields, methods, and constructors of loaded classes. Of coure, there are security restrictions. The reflection API (encapsulated in