I recently created an intranet web application, that amongst other things, displayed the company news articles.  When I started to create this news application, I soon realised that I would need some sort of paging control to limit the number of articles displayed on a single page, not only to improve performance but also to give the audience a clean display of articles without endless scrolling.

There are many solutions available, all with their own benefits and drawbacks, the one I finally implemented makes use of the ADO RecordSet Object and the PageSize, CacheSize, AbsolutePage, and PageCount properties of ADO. This article illustrates the method I used. (more…)

A content management system (CMS) is what allows company employees to publish new content to their web sites. (more…)

Using the MD5 and SHA1 hash functions

If you’re using a login script on your site you probably store usernames and passwords in a database for authenticating the login.

For security reasons, you should never store these as plain text but should encrypt them with a one-way hash function such as md5 or sha1. (more…)

Here’s a handy query for finding duplicates in a table. (more…)

I’m not always working with SQL Server, and sometimes keep forgetting which SQL join to use, this article keeps me refreshed and hopefully give you an overview of the three main join types: Inner, Left and Right.

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