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Question: I’m using Web Datablade and IIF to develop Web pages. I need validation (other than JavaScript) on date inputs. How can I validate dates on IIF, using SPL or

Question: I am trying to install Informix on Windows NT Server. After installation, I get the following error (after restarting): Columns: 80 Keyboard rate: 31 Keyboard delay: 1 Code page:

Question: I am quite new as an Informix DBA. Our company is currently running the Informix 7.31 32-bit version on a 64-bit processor. They are thinking about upgrading to a

Question: I have a bad chunk in a dbspace that is bad and marked “down” by Informix. I don’t really care about the data in that chunk anyway, so I

‘ Evaluate the number of business days between two dates” Note that it doesn’t take Christmas, Easter and’ other holidays into accountFunction BusinessDateDiff(ByVal StartDate As Date, ByVal EndDate As Date,

‘ add or subtract a number of business days from a date” Note that it doesn’t take Christmas, Easter and’ other holidays into accountFunction BusinessDateAdd(ByVal days As Long, ByVal StartDate

The Timer control is great when you want to periodically execute a piece of code while the program is doing something else. However, it also has a couple of shortcomings:

The GetTimeZoneInformation API returns a TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION variable that contains several pieces of information about system’s time date and time setting. The first Long value in this structure holds the “distance”

While VB Timer functions is sufficiently precise for most tasks, it doesn’t provide the highest possible resolution most modern computer can provide. If your hardware supports high-resolution counters, you can