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Importing Joomla articles to WordPress posts
Wordpress

Importing Joomla articles to WordPress posts

Migrating the articles: Change database name my_joomla_db to your joomla database and my_wordpress_db to your Wordpress database Change http://demo.joellipman.com/wordpress/ to the full URL of your WordPress site. If post_type is to be post then append with ?p= otherwise use ?page_id=. Articles: ------ MIGRATING JOOMLA...

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The ReportServer Database
Databases

The ReportServer Database

Amazing, I have just spent all morning on Microsoft websites to determine what number is the TimeDataRetrieval column displaying. Thank you I know it's an INT. There is just a serious lack of documentation as to what this database is and how it populates its data. View: ExecutionLog InstanceNamenvarchar(38)NOT NULLName...

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Before and After, Highs and Lows
SQL Server Reporting Services

Before and After, Highs and Lows

So I'm looking for a SQL query that could do this all in one go and return all the results in one table. With PHP & MySQL it's pretty simple: use individual SQL queries to get the count of yesterday, yesterweek, yestermonth, yesteryear and do the layout in PHP. Now let's say I have one RDL or SSRS Solution. I could do...

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SSRS / MDX Date Queries
SQL Server Reporting Services

SSRS / MDX Date Queries

So I find myself using date ranges endlessly as I've been working in SSRS. The below is derived from a collection of various sources across the web as well as some of my own. These are what worked in my environment: WinXP, BIDS (vs2008), TFS (vs2010), SSRS 2008 R2. The following examples assume today's date is Wednesda...

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Increase Recent Documents Number in Windows XP
Windows OS

Increase Recent Documents Number in Windows XP

Just a quick note here. This is an article based on the REG file from Kelly's Korner (@www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm). I'm not fond of downloading REG files and running them even if I have checked what it's doing. I'm putting a note here just for me: Start > Run > Regedit > OK Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Softw...

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Sort order a dropdown list in MS InfoPath without programming
Infopath

Sort order a dropdown list in MS InfoPath without programming

So this is for Microsoft Office Infopath 2007 (SharePoint 2007). The situation is that I started creating a SharePoint List (datasheet) and when I made my form dropdown read from the list, it just put elements in the order that I entered them in the datasheet. Googling this led me to browse MSDN for an hour before I re...

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SSRS Querying on either of 2 Parameters
SQL Server Reporting Services

SSRS Querying on either of 2 Parameters

The situation is that we are replacing a website-application with a single SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS 2008 R2) report. We're using Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS VS2008) with Team Foundation Server (TFS VS2010) and connecting to an Oracle database (ie. "seamless integration because our setup is...

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Mouseover Links in AutoHotkey
AutoHotkey

Mouseover Links in AutoHotkey

What's this all about? Well I want the basic hover effect: when my mouse cursor hovers over a link, I want that link to turn blue and display an underline. When I move the cursor away from the link, I want the link returned to black without an underline. How?

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