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Searching for matching strings

Question: I have a simple query using an SQL statement for returning matching records from an IIS Web server using ASP. I need a new query which returns a match

Avoid Automatic Transaction Aborts Under MTS

If you are developing COM components that run under MTS (Microsoft Transaction Server), you will notice that many times your transaction automatically gets aborted. You can easily avoid this situation

Don’t Import All Items

The import directive in Java can sometimes be confusing. For example, if you put this line at the top of your source file: import java.util.*; Do all the classes in

Java History

Question: I just want to know where Java came from. Can you give me a history of this language? Answer: I can give you a brief history. Java started out

SQL Query Optimizing Tips

Question: I just wanted to know if you could share some techniques on how to optimize SQL queries (for example, inner join first before performing some steps, do not use

Window Resize Event

Question: How can I detect that a window has been resized?I can detect events such as WindowIconified,WindowDeiconified, WindowOpening, WindowClosing, etc., but not the resize event. Answer: Figuring out how to

Program Fails to Compile

Question: Every time I try to compile a program, I get “Error(0) Duplicate Resources” and the program stops. I understand that this is a linker error of some kind, but

Causes for an InstantiationException

Question: What can cause an InstantiationException? Answer: An InstantiationException is thrown when you try to create an instance of a class with Class.newInstance() and the class cannot beinstantiated. This could

A Simple Right Mouse Click

Question: I am learning Delphi 4. I’m trying to create a program that can distinguish between a right and left mouse click and perform an operation based on which button

Displaying a Record Number for a Table

Question: I use an InterBase database with an alias made in BDE. I want to display the record number for a table when I navigate through the records. Your solution

Returning the Root Drives

Question: Can you tell me how to get the root drives on a system? Answer: The 1.0 and 1.1 version of the Java APIs did not include a means ofdetermining

Conditional Semaphores

Question: I am trying to create a queue that will be emptied by multiple threads simultaneously. In C/C++ this requires the use of a conditional semaphore to signal that the

Determining Memory Usage

Question: Is there a way to determine the percentage of CPU usage or RAM usagewithin a Java application? Answer: Java does not provide an API for determining CPU usage, but

Resizing JTable Cells

Question: How can I create cells in a JTable that span multiple rows/columns,as you can do in HTML with the rowspan/colspan tags? Answer: To the best of my knowledge, it

Select Stored Procedures in MS SQL 7

Question: How do I access an MS SQL 7 Stored Procedure that returns a multi-row Dataset through Delphi 3? InterBase allows selecting from a Stored Procedure. MS SQL 7 only

Understand the Main Interfaces of the Collections API

JDK 1.2 includes a new library of data structures called Collections. The Collections API contains object collection data structures. The Collection interface is the root interface for all the Collection

Using the Swing Timer Class in an Application

The Swing Timer is a useful utility offered by the java.swing package in JDK 1.2. This code snippet shows how to use the timer in an application: 1. ActionListener listener

Submitting Forms to Different Pages

An HTML form usually looks like this: where you have to specify the action within the Form tag, thus limiting a “post” method to only one destination. However, the JavaScript

Undeleting Records from Paradox Tables

Question: How can I undelete a record from a Paradox table? Answer: You can’t. Period. When you delete a record from a Paradox table, its space still exists, but its

Changing Label Captions in a FOR Loop (Follow-up)

Question: In your answer to my previously posted topic, “Changing label captions in FOR loop,” you suggested I use “Sleep.” When I used it, the loop slowed down but didn’t

Lowercase E-mail Addresses are the Standard

Question: I’m working on a company intranet and need to predefine the ?subject and ?body in an e-mail link. When I do, the text always defaults to lowercase. Is there

What is New in Visual Foxpro 6.0

Question: I have been developing software in Foxpro 2.5 for DOS for many years. I have just bought a licensed VFP 6.0, I want to know what is new in

BDE Engine Error When Installing Delphi 3

Question: I used InstallShield that comes with Delphi 3 to install a Delphi 3 program on another user’s computer running Windows 98. The install includes the full BDE and two

How to Prevent Corrupt Indexes

Question: How do I prevent corrupt indexes or automate the rebuilding of corrupt indexes? Answer: Prevent corrupt indexes by taking steps to prevent the crash of an application: 1. Consider

Passing Collections Between ASP Pages

Question: I am generating Active Server Pages using Visual InterDev and VBScript. I have fetched all my records from the database through my ActiveX DLL into a collection variable. Can

Determine Which Controls are on a Form

Question: Is there a simple way to ascertain the names of all the controls on a particular form at run time? Answer: Every TComponent descendant has two properties, ComponentCount and