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Following from Tracy's point about spelling of his name in the Pet Peeves thread, this site http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/ (go to Name Voyager, which needs Java, and play!) suggests that Tracy (with no "e")is more popular as a girl's name than a boys. As is Tracey with an e. My...

Hi folks, have a design problem which some of you must have encountered before as I know this scenario crops up in lots of places. It's proving quite tricky to pin down the solution. I'm using OO techniques - it's not really an OO problem as such, but I can't find a general "system design"...

We have a problem with our Sourcesafe installation.... *Sourcesafe database is on a Novell server. *Database size is approx 50Mb (not big!) and there is about 8Gb free space on the server *5 x developers boxes access this from NT4 boxes with SP6a installed. Sourcesafe is version 6a build...

I want to add the calculator icon to the Windows NT Taskbar. I've tried right-clicking it, looked in MSDN and can't find anything likely. I will also want to do this on my home PC which runs Windows 98. Any help would be appreciated Lesley

For the first time in my life, I will be involved in doing the "technical probing" for interviews. We are looking for about 4 contractors for 18 months, mainly VB6 and SQL Server2000. My boss will be running the interviews and investigating people/team-working skills. I am there...

I am trying to insert values into one table based on a subquery on another. The problem is I need to combine literals with results from the subquery to make the new rows. So I tried this insert into cust_functions (SELECT 'CODE1', cust_id, 'LWTest', sysdate FROM customers WHERE cust_type_cd...

I have come in here several times in the last few days as I am struggling with a script. On each ocassion I have been able to find the answer in the existing threads... only one question (which was conceptual) could I not find there and that was answered both succintly and promptly by Karluk...

Been looking around this forum for help with a script I am writing - it's been very helpful thank you. My script is now working! Question - I keep coming across the term "DUAL" in some of the example code... can someone please tell me what is DUAL? Probably a very basic question...

Experimenting with keyword expansion.... what I want to do is use the $Date: $ keyword to get a date in an ASP file.. the date it was last checked in to source safe. I want this date to display in the HTML file the ASP outputs. Problem is, if don't want $Date: $ to show up on the HTML file...

I am trying to design a website that is phyically one site (in IIS) but it will be accessed from different URLs, to give us 2 or more conceptual sites. Then we will present the site with different branding (colours, logos etc), depending on what URL the user came from. I have also discovered...

Question 1 Originally, we had a big "router" page to which all forms submitted, and the router page had to determine which page the logic had come from. We used Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERRER")and stripped everything before the last "/" which worked fine...

Hi folks, I hope this question belongs here, and that someone can help! I also posted in Microsoft Basic List but really not sure where it belongs. It's urgent, therefore cross posted. I have the following in a DOS batch file, its an installation script. if %1#==?# goto HELP if %1#==#...

Hi folks, I hope this question belongs here, and that someone can help! I have the following in a DOS batch file, its an installation script. if %1#==?# goto HELP if %1#==# goto HELP if %2#==# goto HELP if %ECOMMERCE_ROOTDIR%#==# goto HELP It keeps meeting the condition and...

Well the title says it all really. I had a problem with my site in the live environment (which I can't get to or amend easily) where it seemed to take ages to load the first page. It was not happening in the development environment because it is much much faster, but I thought I knew what...