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Question: How do I animate an image in PowerBuilder? Someone told me I would have to split the gif into frames and then set up a timer. Answer: You can

Question: How do I sort by year a datawindow that already sorts in ascending or descending? (The field is in mm/dd/yy format.) Answer: Create a computed column on the datawindow

Question: How do I activate trim trailing blanks from No to Yes? Answer: The SET ANSI PADDING statement controls the setting you are referring to. When a table is being

Question: What’s the best way to write null values in file, then read them back from file? Answer: If you are using the built-in PowerBuilder functions to read the data

Question: Can I rename a SQL column without making a new table or relying on GUI? Answer: The ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN SYNTAX supports either dropping an existing column or

Question: I just installed IDS 7.31.uc5 on HPUX 11. When I try starting it up (oninit -iy) I get the following error: unable to open input file ‘s’unable to open

You can easily download an HTML page by using the Internet Transfer Control (INet). Here’s a reusable routine that uses this control to download the HTML page at the specified

All COM-oriented VB developers know how to register and unregister an ActiveX DLL, using the REGSVR32 utility. However, there is no such an utility to register and unregister a type

The ADO Recordset object exposes the GetString method, which returns the values in the Recordset into a formatted string. Here’s its syntax: res = GetString([StringFormat As StringFormatEnum = adClipString], _