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Hi, I am trying to find an elegant way to check, in the beginning of a sproc, if I am in production environment. In which case, I will prevent the code from running. This is suppose to be the last level of protection, of course we will be careful and try to check for this in so many different...

Is it possible to install 2005 as a default instance even though there is already a SQL-Server2000 default instance installed on the same machine? Or it must be a named instance in that scenario? Thank you all in advance. Walid Magd (MCP) The primary challenge of every software development...

I don’t know if it is one of these days or what, but I can’t see what is going wrong here! I was demonstrating the limitation of scanf() as it uses any white space to signal the end of the string being entered and as a result there is no way to enter multiword string using scanf(). in other...

My advice is don't spend to much time reading the code in the exhibits before you read the “WHOLE” question first. Some times the problem (and consequently the answer) has nothing to do with the code at all. Again this is just some times so please be careful using this approach, scan the...

Hi all, I will take it on Friday and this information is no where to be found!! Approximation will also be great. Thanks in advance Walid Magd The primary challenge of every software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity in the face of essential complexity. -Grady Booch

Hi Everyone In SQL-Server we can install developer edition and play until we die. Can we do the same with Oracle? If so, can some one from the gurus here be so kind and give me some steps to follow? I am totally new to Oracle, almost know nothing, but not to SQL or RDMS. Thanks in advance...

Hi all I posted a function in the FAQ section FAQ183-6095 to solve this problem. Hopefully you guys will find it useful Thanks Walid Magd The primary challenge of every software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity in the face of essential complexity. -Grady Booch

Hi all Does any one know how to configure TextPad to compile stored procedures on SQL-Server? I tried to find the answer in TextPad site with no luck. A link to site (if there is no time for a complete answer) will be great. Thanks all Walid Magd The primary challenge of every software...

I want to query a data source (Not a SQL-Server) for all the records it has using its ODBC driver, then repeat the process every x amount of minutes to query the records that has been added since the last time and insert all the records I get every time in a SQL-Server database. The first idea...

Hi Everyone I understand that I can assign permissions for the scope of the whole entire list. In other words who will View, Edit, Delete, Insert New record for the whole entire list. What I am trying to accomplish is to assign permissions that have the scope of a record in the list. For...

Does any one knows a reliable way to tell if the alias that is open now (in a free tables environment no database objects at all) is a Cursor? I did my homework before asking the question. DBF() doesn’t work, it doesn’t return a .tmp extension unless the cursor is read write, but not every...

May be I am brain dead tonight, I am trying to restore a cursor with a memo field from XML string like this CREATE CURSOR Walid (n N(1),M m) INSERT into walid values(1,'This is my first memo') INSERT into walid values(2,'This is my second memo') CursorToXML('Walid','cXMLString',1,8) USE...

Hi everyone, After upgrading my Visual Studio to 2003, I always get a message when trying to start a new ASP.Net project, this message tells me that my IIS is configured to run ASP.NET 1.0 and it is recommended that I reconfigure my IIS to run ASP.Net 1.1. Can anyone kindly guide me through the...

Hi my friends I was trying to upgrade my NT workstation to W2000 but I had the problem that 3Com Distributed Monitoring Smart Agent and 3Com Dynamic Access are not compatible with W2000 and need to be upgraded. Well after I spent some time in 3Com.com I felt like this is not a good idea (to be...

Hi all My company will change the ISP, which means we will have another set of IPs. The problem is they told use that the DNS table takes about 3 days to be updated. My question is how I can save our web and mail server during the transiet time. If I changed the IPs at once b4 the DNS update our...

Hi my friends, I have my Lab Top working under NT work station 4.0 and I have a MSN internet account working well in my other computer with WIN 95. My problem is I contacted Microsoft support to get MSN installation CD for NT they told me it doesn't work under NT, the same answer from AOL Can...

Hi all my friends, It is my pleasure to introduce a new member to the FoxPro community, my son Joseph He just 7 days old, I expect him to use Visual FoxPro 12, and when I try to explain some thing to him he will going to say. Dad forget about this Visual FoxPro 6.0 mind set If you have time...

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Hi I was using Assembly a lot long time ago, my knowledge stoped at these days of Dos oriented programs. now I want to referesh my memory again and get my skills in the language back to shape. can any one recommend a book(s) for me for programming Assembly under Windows? Which assembler is the...

In an effort to bridge gaping VFP and VB, specially nowadays it sounds like we (VFP programmers) will need to use VB as a COM builder to be able to support some functionalities VFP doesn’t support natively. I will start this thread to explain one of the major deference between the two tools, I...