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Allow Zero Length and SQL create / alter table

Question:

With a 'create table' or an 'alter table' SQL statement I can add tables or columns to my online live Access database.
I can set new columns to non-required using 'null' in the SQL statement, but is there a way to set the 'Allow Zero Length' property to 'yes' as well?

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database adding #.......# to your files?

Question:


When i linked my images to my Access database, i keet getting a #.............# aroung it?
example: database has ""/myimages/picture.jpg""
I was getting this on the picture  "http://www.mysite.com/myimages/picture.jpg#http://picture.jpg#"

How can i fix it?

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Databases

Controlling your dates

Question:

How do I make my date in a hidden form element so that it inserts properly in a UK timezone date field ? Read More
Databases

Is there an easy way to create a DSN-less connection to a database?

Steps to Create a DSN-Less Connection String for your Access and SQL Server database(s) using some nice windows features.

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Retrieve Form Values from UD4 Insert Record behavior

If you are using the ASP server model and asked yourself once, how do I retrieve the form values from the form that is associated with the UD4 Insert Record Behavior? Read this FAQ. Read More
Databases

Filtering a Recordset with another on same page

How to filter one recordset with another on the same page? Here is a quick tutorial.

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Databases

Keeping User paragraphs (VBS)

Are you making a Content Management System?
Are you making a Forum?

Then I'm sure that you are about to ask:

How do I display the Text as the user entered it? because it shows on the browser as one big block of text...

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Images from a database

I want to pull images out my database so they will be shown in the webpage dynamically. Is this possible with Ultradev because I can't get it to work? Read More
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OLE DB white paper

Universal Data Access through OLE DB

Universal Data Access Through OLE DB provides a comprehensive introduction to OLE DB as an enterprise development tool.
This white paper is being made available for your review only; it is not supported by Microsoft.

Also read: Switching from ODBC to OLE DB:

http://www.udzone.com/showDetail.asp?TypeId=2&NewsId=859

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Time/Date Manipulation

This method explains how to manipulate the server generated Date(), Time() etc functions.

I found this useful since I have a UK site hosted in the US which resulted in all my date/times being incorrect due to the server being on US time. 

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How to generate an ADO Connection String

For database connections in UltraDev you often need to supply an ADo Connection String. Here is a tip how to generate such string very easily.
(Windows only)

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