What?
Please note: the following article is not a solution but a page of various methods and date conversions which I try and use depending on the situation.

This is a quick article on how I got time conversion working in an SSIS package which read from a text file. Note that the example below converts a string in European Date Format (ie. "ddmmyyyy" to "dd/mm/yyyy"). Also, my data flow imports two dates one which was imported as a string (DT_WSTR) and another as a integer (DT_R8).

Why?
It took me a long time to figure this and it was only by trawling through columns that someone mentioned that maybe all the data in that column is not consistent? This made sense as I need to parse the string to extrapolate the date, month and year.

How?

What?
This is an article on how to do a restore from backup on a database but when you get the error: "... database is in use".
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-- SQL Server 2005
EXEC SP_WHO          // details on who is logged in
GO

-- SQL Server 2008
EXEC SP_WHO2         // even more details
GO

-- Run as database owner to see ALL connected processes as well.
  1.  -- SQL Server 2005 
  2.  EXEC SP_WHO          // details on who is logged in 
  3.  GO 
  4.   
  5.  -- SQL Server 2008 
  6.  EXEC SP_WHO2         // even more details 
  7.  GO 
  8.   
  9.  -- Run as database owner to see ALL connected processes as well. 


Why?
For every DBA this is a doddle and doesn't warrant its own article but for those of us who merely use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 R2 for development purposes, the once-in-a-blue-moon restore from backup process is quickly forgotten.

How?
You need to set the database to single-user mode.
Category: Databases :: Article: 491

Applies to:
- MS Windows 7 Enterprise


What?
So I can ping the server the Oracle 11g database sits on. I've installed the Oracle 11g client tools and can connect using sqlplus. But if I tnsping any oracle database, I get something along the lines of:
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Message 3511 not found; No message file for product=NETWORK, facility=TNSMessage
3512 not found; No message file for product=NETWORK, facility=TNSMessage 3513 n
ot found; No message file for product=NETWORK, facility=TNSMessage 3509 not foun
d; No message file for product=NETWORK, facility=TNS
  1.  Message 3511 not found; No message file for product=NETWORK, facility=TNSMessage 
  2.  3512 not found; No message file for product=NETWORK, facility=TNSMessage 3513 n 
  3.  ot found; No message file for product=NETWORK, facility=TNSMessage 3509 not foun 
  4.  d; No message file for product=NETWORK, facility=TNS 

Why?
We NEED several instances of Oracle installed as we have different products/services and these run off various instances of Oracle 9i, 10g, and 11g. This article was written for those that need to support these kind of systems and not as an invite for suggestions on how my business should be run.


How?
So there are a variety of solutions that will fix this. However we have certain restrictions in my work environment thanks partly to group policies:
Category: Oracle PL/SQL :: Article: 490

Applies to:
- Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise
- User with Local Administrator Privileges (required for setup)


Why?
Our work has group policies and two of our programs, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (VS2010) and Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS), require elevated or administator rights/privileges when run. This is so that these programs can write back and forth to our C drive. If we don't run them as local administrators on the workstation, they error incessantly and never manage to do what you want them to do.


What?
I want to create a desktop shortcut that I can double-click and it will run the above programs in administrator mode without confirmation by the Windows operating system. At home this may not be a problem but this is intended for those in an office environment and we get prompted to login (with the same account as we're currently logged-in with???) instead of being able to just click on "Yes".


How?
The gist is that we're going to create a scheduled task (that won't be scheduled) and a shortcut to that task:

What?
We have an excel spreadsheet which reports against a mySQL database and reads time spent on projects by IT Service colleagues. The main report is a pivot table with staff members along the top, tasks down the first column, and time spent in the form of person days in the cross-join.

Why?
Currently the smallest bookable time by low-level tape monkeys and techies is 30 minutes (Managers it would appear can book whatever time, eg. 5mins). 30 minutes for us translates to 0.07 in person days (a person day being 7 hours and 24 minutes or 26640 seconds).

How?

What?
So many people asking this when the solution is a bit of aesthetic styling.
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ol{margin:4px}

-- yields
995.
996.
997.
998.
999.
000.      <-- What's going on here then?
001.
002.
  1.  ol{margin:4px} 
  2.   
  3.  -- yields 
  4.  995
  5.  996
  6.  997
  7.  998
  8.  999
  9.  000.      <-- What's going on here then? 
  10.  001
  11.  002
Or check out this screenshot of the issue:
Ordered List Issue

How?
Category: Cascading Stylesheets :: Article: 485

What?
For those of you who use Preg_Replace. Preg_replace is a function that uses regular expressions to search and replace a string.

Why?
Because my understanding with regular expressions is shady and varies from language to language, I've written this article as a quick reference point.

How?

What?
This article isn't unique as there are other tutorials out there. This is meant to detail a process to export a database using MySQL Workbench and then to import it into another database.

Why?
If you're confined to use this product then this is how to do it. Personally, even a web-based app such as PhpMyAdmin would fare better.

How?

What?
This is an article on how to replace a string with another in all your joomla articles without modifying other data such as modified date and author.

Why?
I used to have a third-party plugin that would replace my HTML tags <PRE> with <PRE CLASS="brush:php">. Not I want to switch these back.

How?
For demo purposes, I'm searching a column called introtext in a database table called MYTABLE_content. First let me find all the articles that need this change:

What?
So this is a quick article on how to install the mySQL add-on for Oracle SQL Developer v3.0.04.

Why?
I've used various mySQL administration tools to manage mySQL databases over the years, all freeware until someone expresses an interest in using it and then the supplier will implement restrictions and trial based versions. Oracle SQL Developer is currently free at time of print (01-FEB-2013).

I also need to use Oracle databases in my day job so the Oracle SQL developer is already a pre-approved software for our work computers. We have SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) as well for our SQL Server instances but it wasn't practical to link this to mySQL databases.

How?

So having moved desk from one side of the room to another, I have lost my view of the sea. Oh well, this is where technology has come to the rescue and returned my calming view...

Note: I think this is running in British Summer Time (BST) rather than GMT or it's clock is seriously off. Otherwise it's a picture from the future (see photo timestamps).


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