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Get a User that has Deleted Rows with SQL

Getting a user that has deleted rows with SQL is a multi-part process. First you have to search the transaction log file for information on deleted rows. SELECT [Transaction ID],

How to save a shortcut icon to a webpage from Chrome

Chrome provides a nice tool, to save the page you are on as a shortcut to desktop. Select the tab that you want to save on your desktop as a shortcut, and go to Tools Menu. Choose More Tools – Add to desktop option.  A new shortcut will be created on the desktop with the link to the page you were browsing.

How to edit restricting sections of a word document

Word allows you to restrict certain sections in the document from formatting or editing.  To enable this on a section of text, choose the “Restrict Editing” option that is under the Developer Menu – Protect Section. You will see the ???Restrict Editing??? toolbar appear to your right. You can choose and set Formatting and/or Editing restrictions.  You need to add a password to apply a restriction and also to remove the restriction. 

How to find which tabs are playing music/sound in Chrome browser

When we open multiple tabs, and there is music/sound from one of the tabs it is tough to figure out which tab is emitting the sound in Chrome.  An easy way is to look for the tab name/title in the open Chrome tabs. Chrome displays a volume icon just before the tab name/title if the tab is playing music/sound. You can thus quickly locate the tab and take further action.

Change the orientation of a page in Word.

Did you ever find a need to change the orientation of a word document?  If yes, you can quickly do that by navigating to the ???Page Layout??? menu and choose the Landscape/Potrait orientation option. 

Java Collections Performance, SET

Java collections – performance (Time Complexity) A set is a collection that contains no duplicate elements. Add Next Contains Data StructureHashSet O(1) O(h/n) O(1) Hash TableEnumSet O(1) O(1) O(1) Bit

Making a File Read-only Using Java

Files have multiple properties and they are interesting to use. In fact, your own file system can be developed using them. Create a file named PATH.txt and try this program

Serialize an Object to a JSON String

Newtomsonft.json has helper methods that help to serialize objects to JSON. See below for a code snippet that uses the library and helps convert an object to JSON format. public

Java Collections Performance, LISTS

Java collections – performance (Time Complexity) A list is an ordered collection of elements. Add Remove Get Contains Data StructureArrayList O(1) O(n) O(1) O(n) ArrayCopyonWriteArrayList O(n) O(n) O(1) O(n) ArrayLinkedList

Java BlockingQueue

BlockingQueue in Java is more advanced Queue. It performs all functionalities of a Queue in addition to certain qualities. It waits for the Queue to be non empty before retrieving an element using take() method and holds on for a placeholder to be available before it can add an element to the Queue using the put() method. BlockingQueue is an Interface and can be used as below. We are trying to initialize an ArrayBlockingQueue with size of 5. BlockingQueue intQueue = new ArrayBlockingQueue(5); intQueue.put() will add the data and wait for a space if it is full. intQueue.take() will remove the element at the head of the Queue.

Duplicate–do not use–Floodfill objects using C#

In order to flood fill drawn objects, you can make use of the next sample: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace FloodFill {     public partial class Form1 : Form     {         public Form1()         {             InitializeComponent();         }         Bitmap bm;         Graphics g;         private bool SameColor(Color c1, Color c2)         {             return ((c1.A == c2.A) && (c1.B == c2.B) && (c1.G == c2.G) && (c1.R == c2.R));         }         private void tobien1(Bitmap bm, Point p, Color Color, Color LineColor)         {             Stack S = new Stack();             S.Push(p);             while (S.Count != 0)             {                 p = S.Pop();

Using SendKeys in C#

SendKeys is very powerful. You can use SendKeys to send a different keycode from the one that was pressed. For example: private void TextBox1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e) { if (e.KeyCode

Using String.join to Concatenate Strings

String.join is an easy-to-use utility method in String class. public class StringJoin{ public static void main(String args[]){ //The first argument (refered as joinString) is used to join the subsequent argument(s)

Calling Java Methods Using Lambda Expressions

To call Java methods using Lambda expressions you can use: – Car::makeCar //Static method of a class- Car::drive // Method of an instance- Car::new //Constructor of a class- Car::drive //

Restrict the Connection to a Database in SQL

You can restrict the connection to a database by specifying Single User mode, as shown below: USE master;GOALTER DATABASE YourDatabaseNameSET SINGLE_USERWITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE;GOALTER DATABASE YourDatabaseNameSET READ_ONLY;GOALTER DATABASE YourDatabaseNameSET MULTI_USER;GO This

Limiting the rows returned – MySQL

Ideally, this is a performance enhancement and needs lot of visibility before hand to implement at early stages. There are numerous cases when you are running on low memory and want to limit the data in your transactions.Especially, when you are sure that you dont need all the records matching your query, you can have criterias set. Stil, there could be plenty of them returned and you may want just a handfull of them or a little more. In MySQL, LIMIT is a feature that helps fetch a certain number of records matching the criteria provided  Eg: SELECT * FROM `database_name`.`table_name` LIMIT 10; The value of LIMIT is defined by what your need is. Use it accordingly to allow only the specified records is returned so that you also benefit with performance and quicker processing.