database

Ok, first of my chest: I have recently started my course on ASP.Net and SQL with C# (not the ones I had asked about, but this one is multumuch better :D). 15 weeks in total web programming nirvana (ok 4 or 5 of those are reps and final projects, but still). What I want to know: WHY WEREN'T I...

Just wondering... Part of my job is to maintain our Oracle databases. I'm quite happy using command-line tools; however, some of my coworkers wanted to know if there were some GUI tools to handle backups and restores. I've been looking at various web sites, but I'd prefer to get a (hopefully)...

A fable. A small company once hired an intern, and informed him one of his duties was to purchase a dozen doughnuts for the weekly company meeting. On the day of the meeting, the intern went to a local doughnut shop, fortunately located in the same building as was the business, and purchased...

REcently came across a very strange problem. Just wondering if anyone has heard of something similar, or knows a way around it. Here at work, we have this small little application that uses a Microsoft Access database. It gets updated on a daily basis with an automated process, but usually we...

I have a database that was set up as case sensitive and needs to be changed to case insensitive. The original collation for the db was SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS and I need to change it to SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. I already did an (alter database <dbname> collate...

The .NET discussion was lively enough, so this should get real interesting :) I think we've hit on this here and there elsewhere, so pardon if this is a duplicate, but anyway.... Seems to me for "smaller" and/or simpler stuff, Access is more than enough (note to purist database snobs: stop...

In another thread, I mentioned I was going to start an Evolution Picture Book project. Basically, the project entails creating a thorough documentation of animals evolving through their transitional forms, with neat illustrations for every animal. And, of course, I had intended to put all the...

Personally, I have nothing against the Pentagon trying to market the military to young people. From what I'm reading, this is too much. You cannot tell me this information cannot be misused. Their track record tells us so...

Currently, I am running several database-driven websites programmed in ASP. I've been using MSAccess databases because they are readily available, and they were the databases I learned to program with in the first place. However, some of my websites with high traffic or complicated database...

... along with a few million other US citizens. article We can all rest easy. Right?

Free online Bible database Not a bad link if you're geering up for a debate with a fundi: http://www.blueletterbible.org

From Geoscience Australia, a database of nuclear explosions with the location, date and size of explosions around the world since 1945: http://www.ga.gov.au/oracle/nukexp_query.html I did a search on United States for the year 1968 - they averaged more than one a week! It's also interesting...