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Column-Level Permissions or Access

Question: I have a table that contains about six million records. Each record contains some sensitive data or data that be accessible by the public. What would be the best

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Best Approach to Designing Three-Tier Systems

Question: I am aware of the recommended approach to developing three-tier systems?for example, presentation layer to business objects to data objects. Say I have a system that has a data

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Will VBScript Ever Be Platform Independent?

Question: Will the VBScript in the coming version Visual Basic 7 be platform independent? Answer: Unless Microsoft decides to radically change things, Visual Basic 7.0 will not use Visual Basic

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Refreshing a Menu

Question: How can I refresh or redraw a menu? Answer: If you make one of the menu items nonvisible and then make it visible again, it should refresh the menu

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Sharing Calendars Without Exchange

Question: How do I set up a shared calendar, or at least public access to other people’s private calendar, in a network that uses Outlook 2000 and Windows NT server

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ActiveX Code Not Working in IE5

Question: Our company is developing a Web site with some ActiveX code. On Windows 98 with Internet Explorer 5 loaded, some can see that portion of code perfectly, and then

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Using ANSI SQL Versus Transact SQL

Question: Is it advantageous to use ANSI SQL syntax or SQL Server syntax? For example, Inner Joins: Select * from T1 inner Join T2 on t1.id=t2.idSelect * from T1,T2 where