Best Browser For Debugging Flash Applications

For those of us who have done a bit of flash programming, I would say always prefer Internet Explorer over Firefox or Chrome if you want to debug flash applications.

I would just tell you about a use case. Recently I wanted to debug an mxml file, so I downloaded the Adobe Flash Builder.And then built my mxml file there to swf format. Now I put a breakpoint in my mxml file at the relevant point and started my web app in Firefox, The application launched beautifully and I was able to see all the debugging data (variable values, call stack, etc) in Flash Builder. I was still analyzing those values and the program suddenly terminated. I looked at the Firefox window and it was showing some flash error. I tried to figure out repeatedly what was going wrong, but every time just after 15 seconds the program crashed and terminated.

Frustrated, I moved to IE for launching the webapp, And... problem solved... Now the program stopped crashing and I was successfully able to debug the app. What I learnt is, Firefox gives very less amount of time for Flash app to load (15-20 secs ), and we as human beings need more time to debug. SO point learnt, while debugging Flash applications, move to IE.

How to copy a table from one server to other in SQL Server

Well , there are like 100 ways to do this. But still people face problems in them. I am talking this specific to SQL Server.

CASE 1- You know the admin or sa password of the source server, then you can use SQL Server Import And Export Wizard, which is pretty simple. Here is the explanation, How to: Run the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard

CASE 2-If you don't have sysadmin rights, then the best option is first to create a Linked Server, stackunderflow: How to run a query on Linked Server

And then when you have created the Linked Server, suppose you want to copy a table (with data) PURCHASE_ORDER from your Linked Server (say NVIDIA) and schema (demo) to your local server with schema (demo), use the following query.

SELECT * INTO PURCHASE_ORDER FROM [NVIDIA ].[demo].[dbo].[PURCHASE_ORDER]

GO

How to run a query on Linked Server

For those who don't know what a Linked Server is, it is SQL Server equivalent of DB Links. A linked server configuration enables SQL Server to execute commands against OLE DB data sources on remote servers.

For running a query using Linked Server, you first need to create the linked Server by giving you remote server configurations. For more detailed info on creating it follow the link. How to Create a Linked Server

Once you have created the Linked Server, say with server name NVIDIA and database schema named demo, and now you want to query table PURCHASE_ORDER, then do the following.

SELECT * FROM [NVIDIA ].[demo].[dbo].[PURCHASE_ORDER]
GO

Create a Table Copy in SQL

Many times what we need to do is just want to create a table backup (with data) in our database.

Suppose you have a table named PURCHASE_ORDER, and you need to create a backup of the table. Use the following query.

select * into PURCHASE_ORDER_BAK from PURCHASE_ORDER

The above query will create a backup table PURCHASE_ORDER_BAK and will copy all data from PURCHASE_ORDER to the table. I have tested the above query on SQL Server and I believe same should work on ORACLE as well as MYSQL