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Sorting MSFlexGrid

Ever wonder how to get the MSFlexGrid to have sorting behavior common inmany Windows applications? That is to say when you double-click on acolumns header it sorts ascending. Double-click again

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Use Decode Function for Oracle Queries

Decode is a very useful and handy function for Oracle queries. Itreplaces the complex If-Then-Else logic, which is used to display different things based on different values in a column.

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Changing the Stack Size

Question: Is it possible in Java to increase an application’s stack size? Answer: The stack size of an application can be set at run time depending on the virtual machine

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Servlet State

Question: I’m developing some applications with servlets. I’ve been declaring static variables to preserve state, but when two instances of the servlet run at the same time, the second instance

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Informix Registration Within SQL Server 7

Question: How can I view Informix database tables via the SQL Server 7 Enterprise Manager? Answer: I’m not a SQL Server user, so I can’t address your SQL Server specific

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Spell checking

Question: I have a bunch of words in a listbox that I want to spell check(with Microsoft Word 2000 maybe?). I would like the routine to delete any word in

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Backing Up a Macintosh PST File on a PC

Question: I have a lone Macintosh user among an office of Windows users. This user has Outlook 8.2 running, with all mailboxes stored on the server. Understandably this is quite