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maintain history in a database

I am designing this database that must maintain a history of employee salary and the movements within the organization. Basically, my design has 3 tables (I mean, there more tables but for this question I'll mention 3, so bear with me). Employee table (containing the most current salary, position data, etc), SalaryHistory table (salary, ...

First Ajax Page Ever Created

Hi, I am doing some research. Do any of you guys happen to know, What was the first Ajax page ever created and if its still online ? ...

Trigger based history

What I am trying to do is find out which fields were updated and record the change to a different table. DECLARE @BillNo int, @column_name varchar(500) SELECT @BillNo = BillNo FROM INSERTED DECLARE HistoryMonitorLoop CURSOR FOR SELECT column_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE ...

_Underscores in Function Names

In a lot of languages with simple OO capability (PHP 4), or misunderstood OO capabilities (Javascript, C using function pointers, etc.), you'll end up with a function naming convention that uses leading underscores to to indicate privilege level. //ex. function _myPrivateFunction(){ } While individual teams are always going to come...

Why wasn't code "managed" from the start?

Note that this is not about the .NET CLR that Microsoft is thrusting into the atmosphere to evangelize the concept of managed code. Most of you know that managed code has been around for quite some time and isn't very related to rocket science. What I would like to know is why the concept of runtime security in the evolution of computer...

windows forms: textbox with history

hello, does anyone know about a windows forms control that acts like the address bar of a browser? it is just like a textbox, but to the right there is a dropdown menu that shows the history of previously entered text. thanks a lot! ...

Unable to read the timestamp of Zsh history

Problem: to understand the following timestamp 1241036430 at ~/.history : 1241036336:0;vim ~/.zshrc : 1241036379:0;vim ~/bin/HideTopBar : 1241036421:0;ls : 1241036430:0;cat ~/.history when I have setopt EXTENDED_HISTORY HISTFILE=~/.history in .zshrc. How can you read the timestamp? ...

What are ways to move data older than 'Y' days to an archive/history table in MySQL?

Looking to move data from a table A to history table B every X days for data that is Y days old and then remove the data from history table B that is older than Z days. Just exploring different ways to accomplish this. So any suggestions would be appreciated. Example for variables X - 7days Y - 60days z - 365days Thank you ...

jQuery UI Tabs back button history

Has anyone been able to get jQuery UI Tabs 3(Latest version) working with the back button? I mean if the user hits the back button they should go to the previously visited tab on the page, not a different page. The history plug in sounds like it can work, but i cant seem to make it work with ajax loaded tabs. If anyone has managed to ...

Fortran dim(x,y), to what end?

In Fortran dim(x,y) returns the difference x-y if the result is positive; otherwise returns zero. What was it intended to be used for? What is the meaning behind the name dim? ...

[Eclipse] History: why Eclipse foundation had choosen OSGi?

Was there concurrent technologies at that time? What was advantages of OSGi compared to other technologies and to native (pre 3.0) technology? ...

Subversion Repository Update with History

I have an old but very important Subversion repository for which I haven't created form the start the usual structure: trunk, branches, tags. So all my files for this repository are residing in the root. I know how to create the new folders and move all my files in trunk but if I do that I will lose my project's history for 3 years, sin...

What is "pass-by-name" and how does it work exactly?

I've check wikipedia, and googled but I still can't wrap my mind around how pass-by-name works in ALGOL 60. Thanks! ...

Why do most programming languages only give one answer to square root of 4?

Most programming languages give 2 as the answer to square root of 4. However, there are two answers: 2 and -2. Is there any particular reason, historical or otherwise, why only one answer is usually given? ...

Bash in vi-mode: browsing shell history with cursor up/down, cursor position not at the end?

I'm very fond of vim and really would like to enhance my bash experience with vi-mode. However one thing I'm so accustomed to the emacs behavior in that, when browsing the shell history with cursor up/down, the cursor is positioned at the end of the line. In vi-mode it's the other way around; the cursor is always positioned at the begin...

file type icons using a css rule

Hi there I'm using this approach to display an icon near each link to a file from my web-application. In order to avoid IE history cache problems I display a link as <a href="path/to/the/file.xls?timestamp=0234562">FileName.xls</a>. In this case the css rule doesn't do his job. Do you know how can I solve this problem? ...

The History Behind the Definition of a 'String'...

I've never thought about until just now, but I'm not sure why we call 'strings', strings. I'm a .Net programmer, but I know the concept of strings exist in virtually every language. Outside of programming, I don't think I've heard the word 'string' used to describe words or letters. A quick Google of, 'Define: string' yields a bunch o...

Eclipse: How to show user who changed this line in CVS?

Someone once showed me a cool IntelliJ Idea plugin that would show all the user commit information from CVS right there in the Java source editor. It had a vertical bar on the right of the window and every code block changed/committed by a user was highlighted with different color and mouse-over would show the details about user and ve...

Why are x86 registers named the way they are?

For example, the accumulator is named EAX and, while the instruction pointer is called IP. I also know that there are bytes called CL and DH. I know there must be a convention to all of the names, but what is it? ...

Flex appending history tracking elements below application

I've got a Flex application that uses link buttons. As soon as I incorporated the link buttons (I assume) the Flex framework started putting history tracking elements below the app in the DOM. For example IE6-8 get an iframe element with id of ie_historyFrame, chrome/safari get a safari_rememberDiv and FF gets a firefox_anchorDiv. Now, ...