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OWA and Public Calendar

Question: Is there a workaround to gain access to Microsoft’s public calendar using Outlook Web Access? Answer: The workaround is on its way—it’s called Exchange 2000. Outlook Web Access gets

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Disable Toolbar Control

Question: How do I make the toolbar not movable? Answer: To disable the toolbar control from the user, you need to alter a property on your application object. In the

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Database Performance

Question: Our Sun E450 system seems slow, especially when 20 users log in together to our Baan ERP system. The physical RAM is 640MB and the disk space has about

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Checking Message Size

Question: Is there a way to write a script at the Outlook client that will make sure the message size—including an attachment—doesn’t exceed our limit as soon as the message

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Validation of Textbox

Question: How do I validate a textbox, which doesn’t have any control source, so if it’s empty it should not lose the focus until the user enters some value? Answer:

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SQLCODE Error -0000019514

Question: When I do aDECLARE CURSOR FOR SELECT, it returns a SQLCODE = 0. When I do an OPEN CURSOR, it also returns a SQLCODE = 0. But I have

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Insert and Amend Datestamps

Question: I have a table in Informix that is changed regularly. The records have no datestamp, so how do I get the date/time of amends and inserts to this table

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All-Encompassing Try

Question: I was told that in order to make my program easier to read, I shoulduse try to cover all of my program, then catch every exception at the endof