In order to assist continuous and effective monitoring of lock status, SQL Server offers the system stored procedure SP_LOCK, which can provide several useful pieces of information on how locks

Restoring a corrupted master database is one of the most difficult tasks you may have to deal with. If this catastrophic event happens, here’s how to proceed. First, you need

The common way of calling a function through a pointer is using the pointer as if it were a function. In other words, if p is a pointer to a

You can define a member function that is a template in a non-template class. For example: class A{public: template void func(); // member template }; How can you call such

A generator is a function or algorithm returning a series of values upon successive calls. The most common example is a random number generator although generators have many other useful

The standard iostream family of classes defines the widen() member function which converts a single char to its wide-character equivalent. widen() has the following prototype: char_type widen(char c) const; The

In a previous tip, I showed how to convert a string containing a hexadecimal to int using the sscanf() function. stringstream objects can perform this feat too, in a more

In addition to the widen() member function, the iostream framework supports the narrow() member function which performs the reverse operation, i.e., converting a wide character to its corresponding char value.

Conceptually, destructors of global objects are called after main() has exited. For this reason, many debugging and memory checking tools are confused and report phantom memory leaks or warn about

Unlike C-strings, a std::string object may contain null characters in the middle of its internal buffer. For example: std::string s=

By an unfortunate twist of fate, the term

Consider the following example: class A : public list < A >{ // …}; Does your compiler accept it? According to the Standard, using an incomplete type as a template

To execute a UNIX shell script, first the shell needs to be executed. This can be done using an object of java runtime class. rtime = Runtime.getRuntime();Process child = rtime.exec(

Public methods and member variables of Java applets are visible to HTML documents. This makes the methods and variables can be accessed using JavaScript. The syntax for doing this is

The file Java/Javalog.txt in the Windows directory (i.e. C:windowsJava.Javalog.txt for windows and C:winntJavaJavalog.txt for NT) contains information for the last applet that was loaded by Internet Explorer. This file contains

Class javax.servlet.http.cookies can be used to access cookies on the client side. The following code demonstrates this technique. The code also checks for the cookie names in order to access

Private Declare Function SendMessageLong Lib “user32” Alias “SendMessageA” _ (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal Msg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, _ ByVal lParam As Long) As LongPrivate Const WM_SETREDRAW

Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib “user32” Alias “SendMessageA” (ByVal _ hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, _ lParam As Any) As LongConst LVM_FIRST = &H1000Const

Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib “user32” Alias “SendMessageA” (ByVal _ hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, _ lParam As Any) As LongConst LVM_FIRST = &H1000Const

‘ Convert a Word-compatible format to an other format.’ Parameters:’ – sFileName is the file to convert’ – wdFormat is the destination file’s format’ – sNewFileName is the destination file.

Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib “user32” Alias “SendMessageA” (ByVal _ hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, _ lParam As Any) As LongPrivate Type RECT Left

This routine uses all the good stuff that FileSystemObject offers. Here it is: Public Sub DeleteFiles(ByVal strPath As String, ByVal strExtension As String) Dim fsoMain As Scripting.FileSystemObject Dim folToDeleteFrom As

It’s easy to introduce duplicate rows of data into Oracle tables by running a data load twice without the primary key or unique indexes created or enabled.Here’s how you remove

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1) To convert a string into an integer: public class StringInt{ public static void main(String[] args) { String stringValue =