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  1. SSRS Display question mark when date is blankhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-display-question-mark-when-date-is-blank.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    to: Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Premium Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise What? So I have a column in an SSRS report which displays a date. Being rather pernickety, I would like a question mark to display if...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  2. Basic Webpage Controls with JavaScript / COMhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/basic-webpage-controls-with-javascript-com.html?catid=48&Itemid=165

    if no parameter Name := ( Name="New Tab - Windows Internet Explorer" ) ? "about:Tabs" : RegExReplace( Name, " - (Windows|Microsoft) Internet Explorer" ) For pwb in ComObjCreate( "Shell.Application" ).Windows If ( pwb.LocationName = Name ) && InStr(...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: AutoHotkey
    • Language: *
  3. AutoHotkey: App GUI Listview to Rename Fileshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/autohotkey-app-gui-listview-to-rename-files.html?catid=48&Itemid=165

    to: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional - Service Pack 1 AutoHotkey v1.1.33.02 What? So this is the documentation for a snippet of code that will list files of a directory using an AutoHotkey GUI and display what it will name them. The app needs to rename...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: AutoHotkey
    • Language: *
  4. Transferring Apps (purchases) from iPhone 4s to 5s on a Windows PChttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/app-dev/ios/transferring-apps-purchases-from-iphone-4s-to-5s-on-a-windows-pc.html

    to: Apple iOS 7 Apple iTunes 11.1.3.8 Microsoft Windows 7 Professional What? Just so many articles out there that did not help me. This article is how I finally did mine. Why? I had paid for some apps on my old phone and realized that if I didn't do a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: iOS
    • Language: *
  5. SSIS Skip Rows in Excel Source filehttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssis-skip-rows-in-excel-source-file.html?catid=74&Itemid=165

    are not blank/null. Browsing the net, I found this is sometimes also used for inserting blank rows to act as dividers. Microsoft Certified Responses: "In the Excel connection you cannot skip Nth rows." "It is not possible." I am shocked at how responses...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  6. SSIS Skip Blank Rows in Flat File Sourcehttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssis-skip-blank-rows-in-flat-file-source.html?catid=74&Itemid=165

    is a quick article to remind me on how to skip blank rows when using a Flat file as a data source. I would receive another Microsoft error as clear as mud: Error: The conditional operation failed. Error: SSIS Error Code...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  7. SSRS External Images don't displayhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-external-images-dont-display.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    image. Solution #1: Image does not appear within SSRS Configure the Unattended Execution Account: According to Microsoft and Stack Overflow, your reporting server needs to have the "unattended execution account" configured. Some sources are specific...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: *
  8. Connection Strings for SQL Serverhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/connection-strings-for-sql-server.html?catid=78&Itemid=165

    Data Provider for OLE DB Type: .NET Framework Wrapper Class Library Usage: System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection Manufacturer: Microsoft Bridging to MySQL OLEDB This is just one connection string sample for the wrapping OleDbConnection class that calls the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server
    • Language: *
  9. Cheat Sheet for mySQL vs t-SQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/cheat-sheet-for-mysql-vs-t-sql.html

    AS Rownum LIMIT from_index, number_of_rows ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY column_name ASC) AS Rownum Source(s): MSDN Microsoft Library (DATEPART (Transact-SQL)) MSDN Microsoft Library (DATENAME (Transact-SQL)) MySQL Documentation - String Functions MySQL...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: *
  10. Formatting a date in an MDX queryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/formatting-a-date-in-an-mdx-query.html

    yyyy HH:mm:ss") =Format(now(), "dd/MM/yyyy") The reserved expression letters used are on the MSDN website at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms146084.aspx NOW() vs TODAY() Noticed this when setting date as the parameter and trying to specify...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: *
  11. Compare two databases using T-SQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/compare-two-databases-using-t-sql.html

    to: MS SQL Server Management Studio 2008 Two Transact-SQL databases What? A quick article on how to compare two Microsoft databases using the tools provided with SQL Server and without having to download any third-party products. Why? I googled and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  12. T-SQL functions to convert Strings to Tableshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/t-sql-functions-to-convert-strings-to-tables.html

    to: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Microsoft SQL Server 2012 What? These were in a solution and I thought I'd note them on my site so I can refer to them more easily. How? Let's start with a function that just converts a string of words delimited by...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  13. Accessing a MySQL Database with Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/accessing-a-mysql-database-with-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

    this is how I connected to a MySQL database from within the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) IDE from Microsoft. Required: Windows XP (ODBC Data Source Administrator) MS Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 Test/Sample MySQL...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  14. CSS Background Without Causing Scrollbarshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/css-background-without-causing-scrollbars.html

    255); /* RGBa with 0.6 opacity */ background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.6); /* For IE 5.5 - 7*/ filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#ff000000, endColorstr=#ff000000); /* For IE 8*/ -ms-filter:...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: en-GB
  15. A quick run through of setting up an export process in SITShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/xml/a-quick-run-through-of-setting-up-an-export-process-in-sits.html

    to SITS:Vision v8.7.0 Uniface v9.6.03 Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SP1) - 11.0.3128.0 What? "Quick" may not be the right word, so this is a somewhat summarized article on how to get data out of SITS, up to running the monitors and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Extensible Markup Language
    • Language: *
  16. MS Excel - Sort pivottable column headings by datehttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/sort-pivottable-column-headings-by-date.html?catid=110&Itemid=165

    is a quick note to myself so that I never use parentheses in the column headings again. Basically I have a pivot table in Microsoft Excel 2010 with the projects down the left (in the first column) and the days of the week along the top. Why? The excel...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: en-GB
  17. Proposed Budget i3 PC under £200https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/proposed-budget-i3-pc-under-200.html?catid=116&Itemid=165

    we'll skip Windows 8 and wait for Windows 9, but in the meantime we need something that flows as smooth as any other Microsoft product with Windows 7 as its Operating System: Proposed for January 2013 (5 suppliers) Processor Intel Core i3 3220 Dual Core...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: IT Support
    • Language: *
  18. SSRS No Delay for First Report of the Dayhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-no-delay-for-first-report-of-the-day.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    server that requires it. Let your report server administrators do this: On the server, open the XML file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS10.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\ReportServer\RsReportServer.config Set the recycle time to 0: 0 Restart...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  19. Add "Command prompt from here" to right-click context menuhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/add-command-prompt-from-here-to-right-click-context-menu.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    to: Microsoft Windows XP How? I keep having to do this every year as I reghost all my machines (=restore to sorta factory settings), so instead of googling it and going through other websites that work and don't; I thought I might as well post the way I...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: *
  20. AHK Countdown Tooltiphttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ahk-countdown-tooltip.html?catid=48&Itemid=165

    to: Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise AutoHotkey (see code for AHK version) What? Someone suggested an app that counts the days I have left serving my notice. I thought I'd go one better and have it calculate to the nearest second. I call this latest app...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: AutoHotkey
    • Language: *
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