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How to get column info from oracle table you don't own (without using describe)?

Hi, How would one get columns information on table which he doesn't own, but has select granted? This is, without using DESCRIBE table_name. Consider this example: // user bob owns table STUDENTS grant select on students to josh; // now josh logs in, normally he would do describe bob.students; // but he's looking for something along ...

How to vertically align a table column both top and bottom?

..if the columns height is dependent on the height of another column? Solution should work on IE6,7 and Mozilla at least. HTML table layout: +------------------------+----------------------+ | top-aligned paragraph | Here | | | is a | | | very ...

How do I create a Lua Table in C++, and pass it to a Lua function?

Hi, In C++, I have a map<string, string>, containing an unknown number of entries. How can I pass this to a Lua function, so that the Lua function can use the data as a table? Hugo ...

Javascript Onclick Problem with Table Rows

Hello. I am having problems with my JScript code. I am trying to loop through all of the rows in a table and add an onclick event. I can get the onclick event to add but have a couple of problems. The first problem is that all rows end up getting set up with the wrong parameter for the onclick event. The second problem is that it o...

Diamond inheritance and pure virtual functions

Imagine a standard diamond inheritance. Class A defines pure virtual function fx, class B defines implementation for fx, classes C and D do nothing with fx. When trying to call fx on instance of class D you'll get 'ambiguous function call' error although there is only one implementation of fx. This can be solved by B and C inheriting fro...

searching for and matching elements across arrays

I have two tables. In one table there are two columns, one has the ID and the other the abstracts of a document about 300-500 words long. There are about 500 rows. The other table has only one column and >18000 rows. Each cell of that column contains a distinct acronym such as NGF, EPO, TPO etc. I am interested in a script that will ...

What is the best way to implement 'Excel like column sizing' for an HTML table?

Basically, I want to allow the user to resize columns in an HTML table, using the same method as you would in Excel. Drag the space between columns and size. I did some research on this last year, and found a few hacks and kludges. Most were pretty bad, and I didn't find anything really good. Now, it looks like I need to implement th...

Is it possible to tell Safari to repeat a table header on printed pages?

Is it possible to repeat table headers in Safari on every printed page? This code works in Firefox but not in Safari: <table> <thead> <tr> <td>Header1</td> <td>Header2</td> </tr> </thead> <!-- lots of rows --> </table> Edit: This doesn't change anything, therefore it can't be the same bug that IE has: the...

HTML/CSS: Table getting out of a cell. Is it normal? How to fix?

I have a table inside a cell, and that table is "getting out" of the cell, as see in this screenshot: I see this on Firefox. Is this "normal". How can I fix this? The code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtm...

Partitioning in SQL Server 2005

Hello folks, I have some questions about partitioning and strategy, how and when to use it. As I understood from Partitioned Tables and Indexes in SQL Server 2005, partitioning is not used only for manageability but also to improve performance on very large database tables (VLDB). We have a table with millions of records. This table st...

Why is <td> shrinking when I set child element to "width:80%" ?

I have a table where one of the left column shrinks when I set the nested element's style to width:80%. The column shrinks and truncates the input elements right edge. You can see what I'm talking about by removing the style from the input element. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/...

jQuery - Edit a table row inline

Hi, I have a table with arbitrary columns and rows. This fact is irrelevant though really, all I want to do is develop a function that will turn a row (or multiple rows) into a series of text inputs containing the data in the table (or empty if no data in cell). I can't find any examples of people explicitly doing this, so I wondered w...

CSS column header with img - how to dock img/div to the right?

Howdy! I have an HTML table that I use as column headers to a grid view. Clicking on a column header triggers javascript that makes the grid view sort, and an icon showing that the column is sorted shows up next to the column text, similar to below: |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ...

HTML table with alternating row colors via XSL

What is the easiest way to alternate row colors in an HTML table (a.ka. striping). Most of my tables are created in XSL templates like the following, with the table, thead, etc.. defined in another template. <xsl:template match="typ:info"> <tr> <td> <xsl:value-of select="typ:dateAccessed" /> </td> <td> <xsl:val...

How to Sort Data Table like FogBugz Cases Table

Anyone ever see how fogbugz sorts their tables? When you click to sort the column, they actually break the table up into many small tables that have each category of info. Wondering if anyone knows how they do this? Looking to implement this feature. If you take a look through the cases page, and sort you can see what I mean. Any he...

Centered UL won't expand horizontally in FF/Opera (works in Safari, IE6/7/8)

I have a centered ul (styled like a table ala cssplay) that is having li elements added to it after page render, and it seems to work beautifully in everything but FF and Opera. The desired effect is to have the row of li elements centered even if there's only one or two of them. This example simulates the issue with jQuery adding an li...

What is the best way to style alternating rows in a table?

Obviously, the actual style of the odd/even rows will be done via a CSS class, but what is the best way to "attach" the class to the rows? Is is better to put it in the markup, or is it better to do it via client-side javascript? Which is better and why? For simplicity's sake, lets assume that this is a large table, 100 rows, and that ...

What can't be done in CSS yet?

A while ago I was trying to figure out a way of doing this without using a table layout: <table> <tr><td rowspan="2">Left column</td></tr> <tr><td>Right Top</td><td>Right bottom</td></tr> </table> Eventually I gave up and decided that it's impossible to do without tables (okay, CSS 3 might be able to, but waiting another 5-10 year...

Making a cell in a JTable editable - the default value of the cell

Hello, I am working with Java, and I am trying to make a cell in JTable to be editable. My class implements TableModel and extends AbstractTableModel (so that I can use the method fireTableCellUpdated(rowIndex, columnIndex)), and I have implemented the methods isCellEditable() and setValueAt(). I represent a single cell in the table as ...

JTable values "jump" in another cell after pressing Enter

Hello, I am working with Java. I have created a JTable, and I have made the cells of the table editable. My problem is that when I select a cell and write a value in it, and then click Enter, the value, which I have typed does not stay in the cell where I have typed it, but jumps in another cell somewhere in the table. The value stays t...