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Mail

Question: Is there a way to send mail with a mouse click? I’m working on a Mac and in Windows. Answer: You can send mail, or do virtually anything else

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Dependent values

Question: I want to create a list box that will contain values based on the value ofanother list box. How can I accomplish this? Answer: A list box is populated

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Inserting rows

Question: When I insert a row into a table, the results from the query that come after the row don’t show up. If I re-fetch the results, I can get

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Creating Views

Question: I’ve got a “new user” question for you. Some of the tables in our databaseshave several columns containing data that’s not used very often. When I’musing ad-hoc queries, it

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Data Replication as a WAN Solution

Question: I have nine offices. I want each office to connect across aWAN and run client/server applications with all datacontained on one central server. However, we are finding the delays

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Adjusting for Deleted Rows

Question: How do I create a column with a row ID that adjusts if a row is deleted?That is, if I had numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6 and I delete record 3, record

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User changes

Question: I want to be able to take an action when a user changes the value of a data field, but not when the value of the field is changed

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Forms without MDI

Question: I want to have a form that does not appear in a MDI (multiple document interface) frame. Can I do this? Answer: In Version 2 of Power Objects, you

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Tables in a session

Question: When I open a session to my Oracle database, I can only see tables that are owned by my user name. How can I get to see other public