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Create Application Roles in SQL Server 7

Developers commonly want to ensure that a user accesses only the data through their application. After all, not every person should be let near a server with Microsoft Access. However,

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Abstract Data Types Versus Abstract Classes

The terms abstract data type and abstract class refer to two entirely different concepts, although both of them use the word ‘abstract’ due to a historical accident. An abstract data

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Connecting the Piped Stream Classes

Java’s PipedInputStream and PipedOutputStream classes allow you to write data to an OutputStream object and to read this data from an InputStream object (see tip “Pass Data Between Threads Using

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Undocumented behavior of the CInt() function

The CInt() function rounds to the nearest integer value. In other words, CInt(2.4) returns 2, and CInt(2.6) returns 3. This function exhibits an under-documented behavior when the fractional part is