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    Replied To a Post in 'LIKE' Statement on two separate words

    If you want to do this using a query you can execute CREATE UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED INDEX IX_StudentNames ON MyTable (StudentNames ASC) WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, SORT_IN_TEMPDB = …
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    >Today is trolllllllllllll Must you disrupt every conversation you are a part of? Do you have absolutely nothing worthwhile to contribute?
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    Replied To a Post in Bah Humbug

    It's not the ranting I'm getting tired of. It's just having to repeat the same rant. I like a little variety ;-) Enjoy your champaigne, AD, and I hope you …
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    Replied To a Post in Seasons Greetings - Happy Holidays etc

    If you are referring to that bullshit about Xmas as opposed to Christmas then you will continue to be downvoted for your repeated ignorance.
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    And it's been used for several hundred years and is no way associated with any bogus conspiracy theory about some non-existant war on Christmas. And I am tired of having …
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    Rather than trying to code up a convoluted query to do that you should instead restructure your table to have separate fields for given name(s) and surname. You run into …
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    Aside from the food, my family is not big into Christmas. Despite the moniker we are all godless heretics here. We also don't go in for the lavish gift-giving (obviously …
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    Replied To a Post in Bah Humbug

    What's a holiday? I'm retired.
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    I will say this about The Desolation of Smaug - some of the outdoor shots had the look and feel like they were shot on a set rather than on …
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    I find that because Microsoft keeps changing where things are put, it's much better to install from scratch than to upgrade, otherwise you end up with a mish-mash of two …
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    It becomes easy to spread a lie when no one knows what the truth is. - anonymous
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    Edited my computer's desktop isn't showing

    hi what if explorer.exe does not work
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    I don't recall what my post count was but it looks to be in the ballpark.
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    >No, he's stating that that's how Obama is trying to sell the ACA to his constituency According to Santorum, by denying affordable health care to poor people they will get …
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    The Exam
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    Replied To a Post in Splitting the string

    If you need the punctuation marks then you are better off doing as ddanbe says - char by char. Usually, puntuation marks are used as delimiters and are not considered …
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    Is there a question here?
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    Replied To a Post in how to buy my first guitar

    [Parts of the guitar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar#Construction_and_components) As for the fingertips, I believe the general rule is practise until they bleed then 20 minutes less. Once the calouses form it gets easier.
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    You could use regular expressions as follows Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load 'the pattern matches the longest string of letters …
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    Replied To a Post in HealthCare.gov what is wrong?

    >Most people don’t get sick, and so free health care is just that, free health care, until you get sick. Then, if you get sick and you don’t get health …
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    Replied To a Post in What movie have you seen lately?

    The Desolation of Smaug (The Hobbit part 2) 3D Unnecessarily drawn out in parts (the confrontation with Smaug, for example) but at almost 3 hours, Peter Jackson sees that you …
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    Replied To a Post in Help With For loop please

    If we reformat the code (with indentation) we get Dim (PlayX) As Integer For PlayX = 1 To 10 If Player(PlayX) = "YT" Then Open "C:\Poker\yt.pok" For Input As #1 …
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    Gave Reputation to diafol in Christmas is coming

    Scientology, Mormonism and Jehovah's Witnesses. I'm rather confused, or perhaps they were.
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    >or I may feel the need to issue another apology. That's OK. If it comes to that I can take this one just by quoting the source. It seemed to …
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    Aren't the undergarments seen as a source of protection from the evils of the world? Sounds like magic underpants to me. And I believe the Mormon Church teaches that native …
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    >Check them out to learn more More than magic underpants and non-whites being descended from the evil side of the family tree? What more do I need to know?
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    Replied To a Post in POS of Water Refilling Station

    If I overreacted then I apologize. I once had a professor who was supposed to teach us PL/1. He showed up for around 2/3 of the classes. The ones he …
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    Replied To a Post in Christmas is coming

    Matthew and Luke both state that Jesus was born during the reign of Herod the Great who is believed to have died in 4 BCE.
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    As sad as I was at the time, I loved how the news reported it as "Jack Benny dies at the age of 39". And the roses were a nice …
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    Replied To a Post in POS of Water Refilling Station

    You are in your 2nd year of IT and you don't know how to make a form? And you are blaming your professor because he didn't teach you? Daniweb is …
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    Replied To a Post in thankyou

    Unfortunately, no. The best deep dish apple pies I ever had were made by a friend of mine but he moved away several years back.
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    Gave Reputation to diafol in Christmas is coming

    >Funny, all you athiests out there so willingly use the Gregorian calendar, which is based on Christian holidays (Easter, Christmas and the birth of Christ). If you don't believe in …
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    Replied To a Post in Create Multiple Textboxes and labels in different forms

    You can find an example of using Excel from vb.net in the code snippets section [here](http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/vbnet/code/464769/export-listview-to-excel-spreadsheet)
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    Replied To a Post in Is this properly done?

    Why do you require back ticks around a variable name?
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    No birthday cake this year. I opted, instead, for a deep dish apple pie (with cinnamon).
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    AD takes pot shots at atheists and I take pot shots at Republicans. It's just what we do :-) Please note that nowhere does AD say we are stupid for …
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    Replied To a Post in Create Multiple Textboxes and labels in different forms

    I don't understand what you are asking.
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    Got you beat. I'm turning 60 on Sunday. >its awful moment happen in my life Sorry to hear you are going through a rough patch. I hope you have friends …
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    Edited Use Parameterized Queries to Avoid SQL Injection Attacks

    A lot of questions in the VB.NET forum are database related. Most of the code that gets posted result in one or more comments like "use parameterized queries to avoid …
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    Replied To a Post in VB.Net code to Insert Data into MS Access database with Parameters

    The solution was to replace the "@" values in the query with "?" as in the following example ListView1.Items.Clear() Dim con As New OleDbConnection("Provider=SQLNCLI10;Server=.\SQLEXPRESS;Database=PUBS;Trusted_Connection=Yes;Connect Timeout=15;") Dim cmd As New OleDbCommand("", …
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    Try creating a form with one button in the top left. Set the form AutoScroll to True and use this code Public Class Form1 Const ROWS As Integer = 100 …
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    Replied To a Post in What's the story behind your username?

    >Hahaha, yep... ;) In my case, my real last name looks like a typo. It's one of those two-word Dutch surnames where the first part is all lower case.
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    Replied To a Post in The last song you heard/ listened to

    I haven't seen Perfect Pitch but generally I don't care for all-girl ensembles. Nothing sexist, I just think the voice mix is too top heavy. While all-male groups can still …
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    Replied To a Post in Is this properly done?

    You do NOT want single quotes around **Value**. Single quotes are for specifying literals. The identifier after the **AS** is the name you want to give the field returning the …
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    Replied To a Post in The last song you heard/ listened to

    >Never heard of them before. Will be listening to more December 2010 and 2011, one of the US networks ran an a capella competition called The Sing Off. You can …
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    Replied To a Post in What's the story behind your username?

    ><M/> - It is just the first letter of my first name within tags... It's also a lot easier to spell.
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    Replied To a Post in Memorable Quotations

    "It's not a bug; it's a feature." - anonymous
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    Replied To a Post in Display word doc in vb.net

    What is **DESING**?
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    Gave Reputation to <M/> in Christmas is coming

    Yet their parents are so tired fa la la la la la la la la The young children are up all night fa la la la la la la la …
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    Replied To a Post in loop in mysql query

    Can you describe what you want in words? There are several ways to generate the given results. One is SELECT EmpNo FROM EmpList WHERE ReportingTo >= 14 Unless you can …

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