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List Structure

Question: How do I control the output format for the list structure command so that it always fits on a page (portrait or landscape)? Is there another way to get

Location of Wizards

Question: Every time I try to use a wizard, I get the following error message: “Cannot find the Wizard Program.” The wizards are located in the same folder that I

Adding Controls to Pageframes

Question: How do I place a text box on a pageframe (or anything for that matter)? Answer: Right click the pageframe in the form designer or class designer and choose

Setting dbf File Attributes

Question: When using the following commands to modify a dbf file, I find the file is not accessible for modification: USE MODIFY STRUCTURE How do I modify the file structure?

Checking Alphanumeric Characters

Question: How do I check strings that have only alphanumeric characters? Answer: When you say alphanumeric, I assume you mean that the characters are in one of the following domains:

Querying Date Fields

Question: I have a table with column called Date, which stores date record, that was entered in smalldatetime format (e.g., 2000-06-01 00:00:00). I need to write a stored procedure that

Query to a Text File

Question: I would like to create a stored procedure that runs a query and outputs the results to a text file and allows me to add extra delimeters and static

Insert Statement Problem

Question: I am facing a problem with the following SQL stored procedure: CREATE PROCEDURE usp_CreateAdminUser /*Input Parameters for the Create Admin User */ @FullName varchar(100), @Telephone varchar(50), @Email varchar(50), @Address1

SQL Server Stored Procedures

Question: I have a stored procedure that takes a costcenterid (int) as an input parameter. The user wants to search on an unspecified number of costcenters each time. I use

Dynamic Variables and Stored Procedures

Question: I need to pass the @TheVar variable to the stored procedure’s IN statement but I keep getting zero records. If I type this statement into the SQL… WHERE Name

Creating Tables with Variable Names

Question: Is it possible to create tables in stored procedures using a variable for the table name? For instance: declare @MyNameset @MyName = ‘dbo.Unique_Name’create table @MyName … This obviously doesn’t

Invalid Object in SQL 7.0

Question: I write a stored procedure and it works fine. But when I do write a “select statement” as below: “select * from sp_name” I get an error message: “Server:

Invalid Seek Offset

Question: What causes the error message”Invalid seek offset”? Answer: This message is often a symptom of a corrupted index. You may want to rebuild the indices of whatever table you

The AVE Code Find Add-in

This add-in augments the VB IDE with the capability to search a string or a pattern across all the modules of all the projects loaded in the environment. Better yet,

Replicate a string of any length

The String$ function can replicate only 1-char strings, so it seems that you need a loop to duplicate strings that contain 2 or more characters. However, this is a one-liner

Export to a text file with the GetString method

The GetString method of the Recordset object returns a formatted string that contains all the values in each field and each row in the recordset, with your choice of column

Faster string appending with Mid$ command

As you probably know, the “&” operator is rather slow, especially with long strings. When you have to repeatedly append chucks of characters to the same variable, you can speed

Export to a text file with quoted fields

As explained in another item in this Tip Bank, you can use the Recordset’s GetString method to export a Recordset to a comma-delimited or tab-delimited text file. However, if you

Clone a Font object

When you want to assign a control’s Font to another control, the first obvious way is to assign the Font property directly, as in: Set Text2.Font = Text1.Font but in

Manually Adjust Leading in HTML Text

Do you have problems with the spacing that HTML line breaks and paragraph tags give?Or have you ever wanted leading that was in-between the two or just a little more

Copying Files

Question: Is there a simple way of copying a file from one directory to another? Answer: There is no predefined convenient method for copying a file from oneplace to another.

No Response From Server Process

Question: When I use onstat -d, the message “No response from server process” pops up. Then I can’t shutdown the database or do any other jobs. I could use dbaccess,

DWORD Equivalent

Question: I’m trying to translate from VC++ to Java. Can you declare a variableDWORD in Java? If not, what is the Java equivalent? Also, what is theequivalent for HINSTANCE? Answer:

Preprocessor Support

Question: Is there something similar to the C/C++ compiler directive #ifdef,#define, and #endif in Java? I would like to compiledebugging code conditionally. Answer: This is one of the first questions

Exception.what() Gives Vague Description

Question: I’m using a catch(exception e). When I come in the catch-block and print the message belonging to the exception, I receive the message “9exception.” What does it mean? Answer: