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Question: I’m trying to migrate an application I created in SQLWindows to Centura and it had some Windows API function calls in USER.EXE. Porting it to Centura, the “Cannot find
Question: What do subnet masks mean and how do they work? Answer: Subnetworks help improve performance, reduce congestion, enhance securityand allow us to isolate networks. On a wide area network,
Question: Do the table partitioning features (fragmenting) in XPS solve the problem of unloading old data in a data warehouse?Specifically, I need to delete up to 400MB of old data
Question: Oracle 7.3, Microsoft Access 2.0 and up, and Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 all provide methods by which a single SQL command can update a table using multiple values looked
Question: In a data warehouse, loading/transforming data is a significant process. Do Informix non-logged databases provide significant performance gains in loading and transforming data? Answer: YES! Though your needs may
Question: Set explain on fails (sqlcode: 586 (I think) ISAM: 1) (Could not open sqexplain.out). We have plenty of disk space and file permissions. It even failed as “root” in
Question: Both of the following questions deal with the extend function; more specifically, how Informix handles dates:1. I’ve used “extend(var, day to day)” in a program since December ’96 with
Question: Why are DataBlades so important, as opposed to building application logic separate from the database? Answer: Though at first glance it appears that DataBlades and application logic operate similarly,
Question: What does the “://” in a URL mean? I understand the “http” and thedomain name, but there must be a reason for the “://”. Answer: Actually its not “://”
Question: I am automatically generating a complex page with many different forms on it. I want the submit button to have arbitrary text on it of varying lengths. I further
Question: Frames look nice, but how do you get back to the first page when you follow a link from within a frame? I’m using Netscape. Answer: Links from within
Question: On a page with three frames, is it possible to establish a link in one frame which will update the other two frames at the same time? Answer: You
Question: Can I do a “binary dump” using PERL? Meaning, can I “compile” a PERL script to binary form? If this is possible, I would greatly appreciate some “how to.”
Question: I have completed my form but cannot figure out how to get theinformation sent back to me. In other words, when someone clicks SUBMITthey get an error message! I
Question: The graphics on my Web pages are all now in GIF format. Someone told me that I should convert all these GIFs over to JPEG format, because it is
Question: I want to create ‘back’ and ‘exit’ buttons that look the same as the’submit’ and ‘reset’ buttons that are in the <FORMS> commands,and place them all together in a
Question: How can I implement a counter on my page, like the oneyou use, to show how many visitors have been to my site? Answer: The most common way to
Question: Is there a document that explains the basics of online computing? Answer: No. There is no single document that can explain it all. The world ofonline computing is vast
Question: When my form has just one text box, I can submit it by pressing theEnter key, but not when there are more text boxes or other controls inthe form.Any
Question: I teach an Internet class to middle school students. Mycomputers only have 33 MHz processors and no multimedia capabilities. Howmuch effect is the processing speed having on my Internet
Question: I’m a print media designer looking to expand into Web page design (surprise, surprise). I have become comfortable with HTML but know nothing about programming and programming languages. I
Question: I would like to have our customers upload their own pages to our virtual server, however, we can’t give individual telnet or ftp access. Is their a way to
Question: I am wondering if you know of a good search engine for a Windows NT server, running Netscape Commerce. Answer: There are more and more search engines availableon Windows
Question: Is there a way to disable the View Source menu optionin the Netscape browser so that when someone tries to look at thedocument source they can’t see it? Answer:
Question: I have a monitor resolution set to 640×480. When I see the image on a monitor with a resolution of 800×600, it looks different. How do I create an
Question: How can I put an initial value in a TEXTAREA? works just fine, but it doesn’t seem to work with textareas. Answer: You say that you did try using
Question: Does Centura support the Unicode consortium? Is there a way to use it with Centura Web Developer? And with SQLWindows 5.0.X? Answer: First, find out what your Unicode requirements
Question: I’m running SQLBase Server 5.2.1-PTF8 for Windows NT, and I’m running SQLConsole 1.0.2 on a Workgroups 3.11 client. All clients are WFW3.11 and communicate with the server via TCP/IP.
Question: I am developing an application in VB 4.0 connecting to an Access 7.0Database. I do not want to set up database security with groups, users andpasswords. All I want
Question: In Word 7.0, under Tools, Options, File Locations tab, there is a dialog that comes up to define the folder containing certain types of files. This dialog allows folder