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Managing Repetitive Jobs Without Cursors

hile lurking on the SQL List server, I happened upon a suggestion that eliminates the need for writing your own cursors to accomplish common database administration tasks. These tasks apply

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How to Set Up the Properties Class

roperty lists are a convenient means of storing user preferences andapplication configuration information in a file.The java.util.Properties class makes managing property lists easy.It is a Hashtable intended only to store

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Identities and Triggers—A Lethal Mix

he identity property is a useful tool in designing databases. However, you can encounter serious problems with using it when combined with triggers. This problem was brought to my attention

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Property Builder Addin

This addin greatly accelerates the process of creating new property procedures, both in class, form, UserControl and UserDocument modules. You enter the name of the property, its type, its arguments

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Collection Class Master Addin

This addin lets you quickly create a collection class, i.e. a CLS module that implements a class that behaves like a collection but only works with a well-defined type of

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Disconnected Recordsets

ne of the great and flexible features of the amazing elastic ADO recordset is that it can be disconnected from its data source, modified, and reconnected to update the data

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How to Time a Set of Threads

hen you time a set of threads, you generally want to know thetime elapsed between when the first thread starts and the last threadfinishes. When you time a single thread,