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A better beep

If you aren’t satisfied with the standard Beep command (who is?) you can use the Beep API function instead, that lets you control both the frequency (in Hertz) and the

Accessing the Address of a String Element

Question: In the following code, how do I get the address of the first character of str in the function discard? discard(string *name){ //..}int main(){ string str; cin >> str;

Get Server Time at Workstation

Question: We want to timestamp transactions on an application that is not yet using a client/server database. Is there a Windows 2000 API that programmatically gets the server time? Answer:

SELECT Using LIKE

Question: Can I use LIKE across all columns in a single table without having to name each column specifically? Answer: You cannot do this as a direct query against a

Problem with Streams

Question: Why does a simple program such as the following produce compilation errors? #include#includeusing namespace std;int main(){ ostream_iterator os(cout); vector vi(3,0); os=vi[0]; os++; os=vi[1]; return 0;} I use the Microsoft

Linking SQL Server to Informix

Question: Can I set up a live ODBC link from SQL Server 7 to an Informix (Standard Engine) database? Answer: You can set up your Informix server as a linked