n a previous 10-Minute Solution, “New PL/SQL Features in Oracle 8i: Part I,” I write that Oracle PL/SQL programmers develop complex code nowadays, utilizing custom and Oracle-supplied packages. It therefore
f you have been following this series of articles, you know the problems with date data entry and the proposed a pop-up calendar solution that allows a user to pick
ith more and more companies moving their applications to the Internet, Visual Basic developers are faced with the problem of having to build components that scale to thousands of users.
This utility if for those who hate having to alt-tab over to Outlook every time I wanted to create a new message. With this program, no matter what application is
This control is a great substitute for the ProgressBar included in the Common Windows Controls package and can give a nicer look to your applications. It has a BackColor property,
The Procedures Sort Add-In is a great add-in for those who like well-organized code. You can use it to sort your procedures in the active CodeWindow alphabetically. It preserve all
The PrettyPrinter Add-in is a very simple VB5 and VB6 add-in that lets you print whole VB code modules or selected procedures, in both portrait or landscape mode. While the
n my series of articles, “Paranoid and Proud of It,” I pointed out that systems require different backup strategies, depending on the criticality of the information stored in them. SQL
he task of retrieving the top or bottom N rows from a database table (by salary, sales amount, credit, etc.) is often referred to as a “top-N query.” This task