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Case-sensitive Comparisons

To program a case-sensitive comparison of a user-typed password on a case-insensitive SQL Server 7.0 instance, assume that the value of the password stored in your table is BamBi2000 (notice

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Improve Your Search Algorithms

A normal practice in implementing a search is to use the “like” operator. As long as you are searching for your keyword in only one column, there will be no

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Calculated columns that refer to relationships

The DataSet is a container of multiple DataTables, and it allows to create parent-child relationships between two tables, as shown below: ‘ create a relationship between the Categories and the

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RestoreDatabase – Restoring a SQL Server database

‘ Restore the specified database.’ Note: requires Imports System.Data.SqlClient” Example:’ Dim connString As String = “server=(local); user id=sa; password=; ‘ Database=master;”‘ Try’ RestoreDatabase(connString, “MyTestDB”, “D:MyTestDbBackup.bak”)’ Catch ex As Exception’ MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)’

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The DataTable’s Compute method

The DataTable class has a method, Compute, that executes SQL-like functions on the rows locally stored in the DataTable. It supports functions such as COUNT, SUM, MIN, MAX, AVG and

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EncodeBase64 – Encoding a string to base64

‘ Returns the input string encoded to base64Private Function EncodeBase64(ByVal input As String) As String Dim strBytes() As Byte = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(input) Return System.Convert.ToBase64String(strBytes)End Function