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Question: I have a table with three columns. The first, an integer type, is the primary key that is automatically increased by one every time a new row is inserted.

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Descending index on SQL

Question: How can I create an index in descending order? How can I order data in descending order with “Order By”? I’m using MS SQL Server 6.5. Answer: When you

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Windows NT 4.0 and Oracle Light

Question: Is the following notification error an NT or an Oracle problem? nt.stp(633): permission_denied while copying key softwareoracleoracle_homes How how can I fix it? Answer: This sounds like a NT

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Windows 95/NT

Question: How does Windows know the default browser settings? Answer: I can think of two possible answers to the question. If you are asking how IE knows whether or not

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NT Server Local Groups

Question: I would like to be able to gain access to NT server local groups for enum, member enum, add member, delete member. We have a lot of servers as

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FPNW

Question: I have 130 users on my Novell side and I want them to be able to use all of the printer on my NT side. How can I authenticate

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NT API

Question: I am trying to use the CreateProcessAsUser API function. If I put the declaration found in the win32api.txt, the program responds, “Can’t found DLL entry point” (Lib kernel32 function

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File System

Question: Is there a fixed limit on the number of files or folders that an NTFS or FAT directory may contain? Is there a practical limit on the number of

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IS Administrator

Question: Can I check if the user running the application has either local machine or domain administrative privileges? I have a piece of code which does this in C++ ,