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Question: In Oracle, using where rownum 200000 ; TOP 10 ; ORDER BY Sales ; INTO CURSOR XYZ

Question: I have an application which uses dialup networking. If I connectafter starting my application, InetAddress.getLocalHost() alwaysreturns 127.0.0.1. Even if I connect before starting up,then disconnect and reconnect, the IP

Question: How can I finalize an object without waiting for the garbage collector? Answer: The System class contains a convenience method called gc() that canbe used to ask the JVM

A lesser-known, new feature in VB6 is the ability to have MultiUse and GlobalMultiUse classes within an ActiveX control project. This is useful if you have ActiveX controls and creatable

For some reason unknown to me, the designers of java.util.Calendar class have enumerated months of the year from 0 to 11 inclusive. So, January would be month zero, and December

To test your applets using the applet viewer, put the following comment in your Java file: /* */ Then you won’t need an HTML file for your applet code. The

In ASP pages, you can share script functions or libraries using the #INCLUDEdirective. This feature allows you to share subroutines and functions acrossmultiple pages. Instead of repeating similar (or rather

IObjectControl is the second COM interface (besides the COM interface IObjectContext) of the component class factory, as stored in MTS when the component is installed. This interface is useful for

There are two limitation about writing ASP code with VBScript. First of all, all variables must be variants. Second, VBScript can currently retrieve output parameters only when they are declared