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One can use the dbcc memusage command in both SQL Server 6.5 and 7.0 to determine which databases are using the most of the server’s memory. You can run dbcc

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This may seem a bit off-topic, but it has been a fertile source of guesses and flame wars in C++ newsgroups for years: how to pronounce the name of C++

Improper use of objects and object references can cause your application’s objects to stay resident in memory. Such “memory leaks” often causes system performance degradation and prevents your application from

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In the past, VB allowed an app to have only one icon. However, resource files expose any contained icons to Windows. Simply add the icons you wish to show to

Question: I’ve developed an application using JavaScript to access Oracle database and display results in sets of tables on an HTML page. Recently, I got a request to place the

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Unlike C, C++ does not impose any restrictions on the length of identifiers. Implementations set their own limits, but these are so high that identifiers can consist of tens of

I wanted to distinguish between different print jobs. I tried to find a way to set the print job name that appears in the printer queue, but even some nasty

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I often include a module called Utilities.bas in my projects. It contains routines that are not directly used by the application, but instead are invoked in the Debug window, usually

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