Here in this article we shall learn to create ODBC data sources that will be used as drivers in connecting to databases like MS access or oracle.

Click here to see how to create data source for oracle database in control panel.

After this is done, you will be able to use this data source in your front end program(Java, VB.net etc). Click here to see JDBC connectivity if you have already created data source.

To create a data source, Go to Control Panlel--> Administrative Tools and then click on Data sources.

Hello Engineers,

I have seen candidates struggling a lot while making a first time connection to a database(Oracle, MS access etc) using Java or any other front end technology. That is why I have added this article to make it simple and fast.

In this article we will learm how to connect to MS access database(*.accdb, *.mdb) using java program.

Before conneting to MS access database, you need to create data source in Control panel. Follow this llink to create data source in Control Panel >>Administrative Tools for MS access database.

Once the data source is created, we will move to the coding p ... Read more »

shift - shift command is used to shift positional parameters

FORMAT
       shift [n]

DESCRIPTION
       The positional parameters can be shifted using this command. Positional parameter 1 shall be assigned the value of parameter (1+n), parameter 2 shall be assigned  the     value of parameter (2+n), and so on.

The parameters represented by the numbers "$#" down to "$#-n+1" shall be unset, and the parameter '#' is updated to reflect the new number of positional parameters.

       The value n shall be an unsigned decimal integer less ... Read more »

Many times we want to send a mail to someone at a specific time but not now. Due to some reasons, we want to the mail to be sent after some mins or hours.

In this article we will learn how can we schedule a mail in MS Outlook to be delivered at certain time in future!

Its very simple. First of all create the mail/message that you want to send later. Now follow below steps:

1. Go to Options tab at the top.
2. Then, go to More Options section and click on Delay Delivery.
3. You will get below dialog:

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