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APPLIES TO Joomla 2.5.x Why? I'm building a Joomla component which is to be compatible with Joomla versions 1.6.x to 2.5.x. Because I use dynamic scripts running in the background (mootools), some of these need to connect to the database but as they sit outside of the MVC structure, we need them to use the existing con...
This will copy a given table into a temporary table all the while maintaining the structure and data. Thinking inside of the box I think everyone suggests the following (or at least the idea of): SELECT * INTO #MyTempTable FROM @GivenTable If @GivenTable is a parameter then the above will simply return an error. Also...
Some people have been suggesting you can use "CREATE OR REPLACE ... VIEW ... FUNCTION" but my SQL Server 2008 Management Studio doesn't like this and refuses to understand what I'm trying to do.
This was called a Data-Scrambling Function but it depends on what you mean by "scrambling". This is a function which merely uses the same characters but switches their order randomly, so I've renamed it DataJumble as opposed to my article on Data-Scrambling. Why? We want to scramble sensitive data that we send to suppl...
Thought I'd put a quick note here, I tried a fair few solutions that didn't work and then found this hidden away in a forum: Quick Count =INT(SUMPRODUCT((A3:A1000<>"")/COUNTIF(A3:A1000,A3:A1000&""))) This returns the number of unique values in the range A3 to A1000 and excludes the blank/empty cells. Display all Unique...
Thought I'd add the migration script I've been using to test my JComments migration from my Joomla CMS site version 1.5.20 to Joomla CMS site version 2.5.6. DISCLAIMER I do not work for either Joomla or JoomlaTune (Jcomments) This script is provided as is without warranty If you do not understand what this script is do...
Given Data Activities by employees with start dates and end dates in a mySQL database. Objective User Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Total --------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- --------- Me 09:00 07:30 08:00 07:00 06:00 00:00 02:00 36:00 Myself 07:30 07:30 07:30 07:30 07:00 00:00 00:00 37...
Week Ending Date has been requested a lot more frequently now. It's an odd one but the example below shows how to do this for when the week ends on Friday. Assuming it starts on the previous Saturday.
The problem is that if the student does not have a username but has an ID number, then the first query returns NO ROWS and then the second query errors and the whole stored procedure fails. The same problem happens when using these as a subquery which has an empty result set. Furthermore I am using this stored procedur...
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