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Well I tried the SQL Server Management Studio solution to connect to a MySQL database then lost my way wondering what was I trying to achieve? I've written this article because this is how I connected to a MySQL database from within the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) IDE from Microsoft. Required: Windo...
Download Connectors from dev.MySQL.com MySQL Connector/Net Type: .NET Framework Class Library Usage: MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnection Manufacturer: MySQL Standard Server=myServerAddress;Database=myDataBase;Uid=myUsername;Pwd=myPassword; Default port is 3306. Specifying port Server=myServerAddress;Port=1234;Databa...
The following describes how to setup a database user with read-only access to the AdventureWorks database. Using SQL Server Management Studio 2008: Connect to your database server. Expand Security > Logins. Right-click on the user who will be set as having read-only access (in this example "adventureworksro"). Select P...
The scenario is that I wanted a PHP/MySQL extension created which needs to launch a query to find all columns across the tables of the local database which had valid content to extract keywords from. The following is a MYSQL query that displays the structure of all the columns in all the databases of the localhost: SEL...
This is a note to myself but also to anyone out there who's spent as long as I did looking for a solution to this. Maybe it's just me but this is the scenario: Joomla works fine with international characters A Module Extension I wrote for Joomla! displayed funny characters. The Joomla! articles were displaying the corr...
The title of this article implies something rather odd and upcoming considering that Sun Microsystems bought MySQL and Oracle bought Sun. But in fact, this is just a quick list of some regular commands in MySQL that I need in Oracle:
As usual I have searched the WWW but I obviously don't how to use Google because I couldn't find an answer. My situation is this: We have an internal wiki knowledge base using MediaWiki version 1.14. Some articles are available for public, some are restricted to staff and different localgroups. When users click on the...
Basically you've woken up this morning, visited your website, and all your K2 articles are gone !!!! If you login to your Joomla! administration panel (back-end) and look under k2 items, you should get the following error: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/public_html/administrator/components/co...
Thought I'd put this error in here and how I fixed it. Basically because firstly I don't want to have to create an account on someone else's forum just to post my answer and secondly because my solution is a "cowboy fix" rather than the other intelligent solutions on the web. The issue was that I was building my first...
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