User Defined Function
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MySQL worm hits Windows systems
News Databases protected by weak passwords on Windows-based machines could allow a worm to spread to several thousand systems.
Tags: Viruses and worms
MySQL worm halted
News After infecting thousands of computers, the bot software has been cut off from its command center, essentially halting its spread.
Tags: Viruses and worms
New features in Oracle 9i, Release 2 let you perform ETL tasks without leaving the database
Insight Oracle 9i, Release 2, uses new, built-in features to perform ETL tasks without ever exiting the database. Here's a quick breakdown of the application's extract, transform, and load capabilities.
Nudge paragraphs in a Word document
Techguide Sometimes you need just a little more space before a paragraph. You have to update the style to reflect a little more space before or after each paragraph.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Formula, user-defined function, Cell, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft VBA, Ingersoll-Rand, performance, keyboard, Microsoft Excel
Creating Microsoft Excel user-functions
Insight tutorial Microsoft Excel allows users to create their own user-defined functions. These functions can be used just like any built-in function already available in Excel. Here's how you create them.
Changing numbers into words in Excel
Insight Microsoft Excel does not ship with a function that will convert a numeric value into English words. However, there is a user-defined function that will perform that service.
Tags: Microsoft Office
10+ things that are broken in Access 2007
Techguide If you switch to Access 2007, you'll encounter more than just a radical new interface--some things are just plain broken. See what you can hotfix and what you'll have to live with.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Field, Slide, Microsoft Windows Vista, Tool, shortcut menu, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft PowerPoint, printer, toolbar
Map multimedia keyboard keys with hotkeys
Techguide Most multimedia keyboards come with a Windows driver disk to handle the keyboard events on the extra keys, but Linux is often left out in the cold.
Incorporate SQL Server UDFs in .NET applications
Techguide User Defined Functions (UDFs) are a powerful feature that every developer who works with SQL Server needs to know. Learn how to incorporate UDFs in your next .NET project.
Enhanced interface for xSQL Object 1.5
Architect Version 1.5 of xSQL Object, a utility for SQL Server database administrators and developers that provides for scripting and synchronising of SQL Server objects, is now available.
Map multimedia keyboard keys with hotkeys
Insight tutorial Working with multimedia keyboards in Linux? Learn how to make key navigation easier by using hotkeys to configure your multimedia keyboard.
Tags: Linux
Playing with user-defined functions
Insight Most developers would list table variables and UDF calls from a SELECT statement as UDFs’ main claim to fame. But there’s much more: They increase functionality with less effort.
