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  1. Formatting a date in an MDX queryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/formatting-a-date-in-an-mdx-query.html

    I could use SWITCH to do this in an MDX query but I spent over an hour before I gave up trying to get SWITCH to work. Instead I cheated and got the ordinal in the Transact-SQL query: CASE DATEPART(DAY, [MyDateValue]) WHEN 1 THEN 'st' WHEN 21 THEN 'st'...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: *
  2. SQL Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/sql-calendar-in-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

    that I've asked it to return the full date of the parameter, this is because I will format it via the text-box properties instead of getting the expression to return it exactly (there seem to be issues with this - error textbox1[0]...). You will need...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  3. Convert to Proper Case in T-SQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/convert-to-proper-case-in-t-sql.html

    into mixed case. The feed is originally for a personnel feed so it won't be converting long paragraphs of English text. Instead it will be applied to names and addresses as well as job titles and departments. Why? We wanted a T-SQL version despite...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  4. Basic Oracle Function Structurehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/oracle-pl-sql/basic-oracle-function-structure.html

    all I need in this case. In my example, I need to submit an Active Directory (AD) username and receive a student ID number instead, all with the aim to improve performance on some SSRS queries which accept either an ID number or an AD name as user...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Oracle PL/SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  5. Fix Oracle Tnsping 3511 without Windows Registryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/oracle-pl-sql/fix-oracle-tnsping-3511-without-windows-registry.html

    we simply help support them. You say less than ideal, I say realistic. Quit complaining about processes and management and instead prove your worth. I'm good at what I do because I make do with what I have available and I've yet to fail in coming up...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Oracle PL/SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  6. Merge the content of two similar tables in MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/merge-the-content-of-two-similar-tables-in-mysql.html

    tables, simply start with another "UNION ALL" clause with a note to give the 3rd table a different alias to the 2nd (so "C" instead of "B"): SELECT title, intro FROM ( SELECT `title`, `introtext` intro FROM `jos_content` a WHERE a.state=1 UNION ALL...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  7. MySQL: Display Users and Duration in Matrix Timesheethttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/mysql-display-users-and-duration-in-matrix-timesheet.html

    rather than PHP so as not to have to deal with hour changes and the magical 23:00 hour. -- 2nd Note: We use "WEEKDAY" instead of "DAYOFWEEK" as our working week starts on Monday (Mon=0, Tue=1, Sun=6). User Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Total Days...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  8. CSS Center an iFrame Horizontally and Verticallyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/css-center-an-iframe-horizontally-and-vertically.html

    has a height of 2000 pixels, the iframe gets aligned to the top of the parent... How? We're going to use a touch of CSS and instead of determining heights and alignment with JS. The following code will work with DIV layers but in this case, also works...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: en-GB
  9. Inline Labels in Form Fields using Javascripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/js/inline-labels-in-form-fields-using-javascript.html

    "Name:" and the color back to grey. If it isn't, then leave as is and ensure the color is still black. Additional Note that instead of just saying if this value equals "Name:" I've added some code to trim the values. If the user types two spaces, then...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: JavaScript
    • Language: en-GB
  10. PHP & MySQL Search Enginehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/php-a-mysql-search-engine.html

    relevant? (when it isn't, the sound matches and then it's a typo on the sound so it matches words that are vaguely similar instead of spot on). $didyoumean_words_array=array(); foreach ($terms as $term) { $term=strtolower($term); # get closest word by...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
  11. Convert XML UTF-16 to JSON UTF-8 with PHP cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/convert-xml-utf-16-to-json-utf-8-with-php-curl.html

    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); // TRUE to return the transfer as a string of the return value of curl_exec() instead of outputting it out directly. // store the response $ch_result = curl_exec($ch); // close connection curl_close($ch); // convert the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
  12. Foreign Characters create symbols in PHP and MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/foreign-characters-create-symbols-in-php-and-mysql.html

    When we copy and paste their content into our website, our webpages display a question mark inside a diamond shape instead of the foreign character. How does it happen? Have I tried the other solutions on the web? I have tried adding the following to my...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
  13. SITS: Export field code and namehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/xml/sits-export-field-code-and-name.html

    birth of a person as an example as it is expected to be a long list and where just using the parameter &S is not workable. Instead I want to use &G[] and get both the code and the lookup value: -- What I have: no export format 5826 -- What I could have:...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Extensible Markup Language
    • Language: *
  14. Joes Quicklist Weblinks (JQW) Downloadshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-quicklist-weblinks-jqw-downloads.html?catid=105&Itemid=165

    Date is now "created" date. - Enhancement: Included span tags for individual elements. - Enhancement: Using div layers instead of tables. - Fixed Bug: Switched CSS ID tag to CLASS for W3C Validation. - Fixed Bug: Now allows description inline with popup...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Downloads
    • Language: *
  15. Accessing Apimo WebService APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/accessing-apimo-webservice-api.html?catid=109&Itemid=165

    to a company then 2) getting the properties for each agency: Other Methods Here's the cURL I couldn't get working. Instead I used Apimo's documentation with file_get_contents. Just storing this in case. // cURL With SSL via method GET: FAIL $header =...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: API Miscellaneous
    • Language: *
  16. Amazon Kindle: Send PDFs to your Kindlehttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/amazon-kindle-send-pdfs-to-your-kindle.html?catid=121&Itemid=165

    approved. Follow steps 1 – 5 as stated under Finding your Kindle email address. However, click on Preferences this time, instead of Devices. Scroll down and select the Personal Document Settings Scroll down again and select the Approved Personal...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Kindle
    • Language: *
  17. Zoho Deluge - Pad with leading Zeroshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge/zoho-deluge-pad-with-leading-zeros.html

    pretty old code and not wanting to cause offence, it isn't the JavaScript style or chain I like which appends the functions instead and is clearer for me personally to understand: // I want 010 v_NextIndex = 10; // yields 10 v_NextIndexStr =...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho Deluge
    • Language: en-GB
  18. Joomla banners not rotatinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-banners-not-rotating.html

    OR the same category. The setting is in your Joomla > Module Manager > Banner... What I do is I don't select a client but instead just select a category. Set it to only display 1 banner at a time. If you want other categories to display, consider...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: en-GB
  19. Error 404 Component Not Found when enabling SEF URLshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/404-component-not-found-sef.html

    some terrible 3rd-party SEF plugins to correct the situation but when I moved my test site to live at www.joellipman.com (instead of being on http://test1.joellipman.com), I found I could disable the third-party SEF extension and enable my Joomla SEF...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: en-GB
  20. Set default parameter dates to start and end of monthhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/set-default-parameter-dates-to-start-and-end-of-month.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    always been a date range rather than just the one date. The user must be allowed to select all results between two dates instead of just specifying the one day. If the second parameter (ToDate) is the same as the first (FromDate), then the range is for...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: *
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