Extending the jQuery Sortable With Ajax & MYSQL

I’ve had a lot of response to the jQuery sortable list post I wrote a while back, and a lot of them ask how to send the results to a database. I’ve often said the best thing to do would be to update it by AJAX, but I’ve never really explained how. So here it is!

Restart or Shutdown Windows (XP, 2000 and Vista) from Command Line or One-Click Shortcut

“shutdown -a”. There are other options or parameters that available, and users can view all of the flags with “shutdown /?” command at command prompt.

The options available for shutdown are: Continue reading “Restart or Shutdown Windows (XP, 2000 and Vista) from Command Line or One-Click Shortcut”

Retrieving Records from Multiple Tables

It does no good to put records in a database unless you retrieve them eventually and do something with them. That’s the purpose of the SELECT statement—to help you get at your data. SELECT probably is used more often than any other in the SQL language, but it can also be the trickiest; the constraints you use to choose rows can be arbitrarily complex and can involve comparisons between columns in many tables. Continue reading “Retrieving Records from Multiple Tables”