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I'm new to oracle. I've just installed oracle on my standalone PC running WindowsNT. I'm always prompted for "userid" and "password" to use SQL*Plus. I created a user from Windows NT user groups as the DBA fro oracle. Still the user I created is rejected by SQL*Plus. What...

I'm developing a retail application. In order to achieve ease-of-use, I want the administrator to be able to remotely shutdown, restart or logoff any computer on the network, from within my application. How do I do this?

I've just successfully packaged a Retail Application, that I developed using VB, on a CD. I've installed it for couple of retail outlets at some fees. But I did not release the CD to them. They used to call me when there is need for reinstallation. The software is getting popular, there are...

I set the system Regional Setting to English, date format to "dd/mm/yyyy". In my application, A textbox accepts date input from a user: "05/02/2001" A query statement uses [# Cdate("05/02/2001") #] to update a date-type field in a transaction table (access...

I dont want Windows NT Start Menu to show, when user presses "CTRL+ESC". How do I disable the "CTRL+ESC" key from Visual Basic. A friend suggested using Scancode Mapping in Windows registry, but its risky.

My application uses a control to accept input from users. The control is centralised on a 14" monitor, but appears on a far left corner of the screen on 15" monitor, and different point on 17" . How do I centralise this control to maintain the same position on whichever vga...

I'm currently testing a retail application. There are reporting features in the application, implemented with Report Designer. The reporting features runs well on the development machine. (using rptSales.Show, etc) But on target machine it did'nt run at all. What could cause this? Could it be...

The deadline given me to deliver an application is fast approaching. There are still some outstanding modules that I need to implement. I need codes that I can finetune. 1)Could anyone give me code snippets on how to be able use Win32 API functions(or other means, not network...

I discovered that most Medium-Scale Business Accounting Packages(e.g SAGE, PEACHTREE) uses .dat as their data files. Also I don't think they use any Database Management System(eg Access, Sybase etc) to manage data. So its easy to code backup/restore routines. I prefer this because its kinda...

I'm currently developing an application. The application writes users' activities to a log file (text file). To view the log file, admins will click a command button, which then fills a listbox control with the content of the log file. But I'm afraid smart users would recognize a log file if...

I'm currently developing a retail application. The front-end is Visual Basic 6. The backend is Access 97. The .mdb file contains just indexed-tables, relationships and security objects. The front-ends access the back-end via mapped drives. About 50 or more remote users will be...

I'm currently testing a commercial application that I developed with Visual Basic 6.0, targeted for Windows 95/98/NT/2000. I want 16MB RAM to be the minimum requirement. The application consumes small diskspace(which is OK), but I don't know how much memory it consumes when running. How do I...

I'm currently testing a retail application.The application requires that users(up to 50 or more,from remote Win 95/98/NT workstations) frequently (2secs or less) update rows in Access 97 database on another workstation via Visual Basic 6 front-end using ADO 2.0. When reading rows I used...

Does an enabled Timer control use a lot of system resources?

I used Package & Deployment Wizard to package an .exe application. The packaging was successful. But during deployment on target computer, I encountered the following errors; Errors: ------- 1)Setup Error 168 - "Encountered problem while updating your system...

I've just finished reading my study guide for exam 70-175 in MCSD(Visual Basic). I need braindumps, transcenders and cramsessions to aid me in preparing for the exam.<br>Could you please give me the name of site(s) that I can get these.<br><br>Thanks

I'm currently writing a Printer Monitor software with VB6.<br>I employed two Win API spooler functions, Enumjobs() and GetPrinter().<br>These two functions returns a status member which can be used to determine the status of a printjob and the printer.<br><br>I tested the software, the...

I'm currently writing a Printer Monitor software with VB6.<br>I employed two Win API spooler functions, Enumjobs() and GetPrinter().<br>These two functions returns a status member which can be used to determine the status of a printjob and the printer.<br><br>I tested the software, the...