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Use this method whenever you need a tiled background on your forms. All you need is an Image control with its Visible property set to False, and a graphic in

This tip is for SQL Server 7.0 or up. If you

Install and uninstall issues are some of the most common sources of calls to help desks. The following is a tip on an implementation strategy for software updates using InstallShield

When the DNS service has stopped, use this code to start it automatically. #! /bin/bashdns_pid=`ps -ax|grep “named -u named” |grep -v grep |awk ‘{print $2}’`if test “x$dns_pid” = “x” ;

Reading from the object variable is always slower than reading from the local variable. So, if you are reading from the object variable frequently, then save it in a local

Say you want to retrieve all of the authors whose last names started with an L, M, or S. Here’s the query: select au_lname, au_fname from authors where au_lname like

For inserting explicit values into the identity column of a table, IDENTITY_INSERT property is set to ON. Table tblName has got following fieldsCompanyID INT IDENTITY(1,1)CoName VARCHAR(75) And following the data:

In the .NET Framework, the DataSet’s WriteXml method when used to create a DiffGram does not provide the capability to include schema information along with the data. This is more

In the XmlNode class, that is the class that provides node functionality in an XMLDOM representation of an XML document, the SelectNodes (and the ancillary SelectSingleNode) method exploits the XPath