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  1. Restore MSSQL Error: Database is in usehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/restore-mssql-error-database-is-in-use.html

    click Yes. Restoring in SSMS, Right-click on the database Select Tasks > Restore... > Database Specify the "to a point in time" if you don't want to restore from the most recent backup and double-check the "Start/Finish Date" is the one you want. OK...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  2. CharIndex Reverse - find occurrence starting from end of string in TSQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/charindex-reverse-find-occurrence-starting-from-end-of-string-in-tsql.html

    as we got the last occurrence counting from the beginning rather than the end, so we still need to work out the starting point: SELECT LEN(@Haystack) - CHARINDEX(@Delimiter, REVERSE(@Haystack)) -- yields "23" SELECT SUBSTRING(@Haystack, LEN(@Haystack) -...

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

    horizontally and vertically in a screen/viewport in pure CSS (no JavaScript allowed). This CSS centers it by its center point rather than the top/bottom/left/right outline. Why? On a mobile, a client's site uses an external page embedded by iframe. When...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: en-GB
  4. Preg_Replace all strings between two tagshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/preg-replace-all-strings-between-two-tags.html

    with regular expressions is shady and varies from language to language, I've written this article as a quick reference point. How? Well you use this in your PHP scripts, the examples below are meant to help but feel free to comment if they do not:...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: *
  5. 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

    have seen this all over the Internet as the accepted solution... Doesn't work for me because I'm using cURL but it's a first point of reference. This will work if the received XML is a string. // setting XML value $string = ' 2/13/2013 10:37:24 PM...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
  6. Crystal Reports: Exporting to Excel omits column headershttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/crystal-reports-exporting-to-excel-omits-column-headers.html?catid=110&Itemid=165

    If you've been to the point where you're exporting a report to Excel, and only some of the column headers appear, then try this: I googled this for ages and found different suggestions here and there but none of them produced consistent results. One...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: en-GB
  7. Blank columns issue when exporting to Excel (Data Only) from Crystal Reportshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/blank-columns-issue-when-exporting-to-excel-data-only-from-crystal-reports.html?catid=110&Itemid=165

    as this is from within a web application, there are no extra options or dialogs to select. The export had to work from this point on. I can't take any credit for the below as it was copied from http://hosteddocs.ittoolbox.com/ST030504.pdf. A "Crystal...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: *
  8. Excel: convert degrees minutes seconds to decimalhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/excel-convert-degrees-minutes-seconds-to-decimal.html?catid=110&Itemid=165

    39.81111111 116.7083333 Note that negative numbers should be supported. I tend to use Excel to reduce the decimal point to only 7 decimal places (for importing to a database where DECIMAL(10,7) ). Merging the lot If B1 contains the coordinates and there...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: en-GB
  9. Is it a scam? Gumtree.com's warning signshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/is-it-a-scam-gumtreecoms-warning-signs.html?catid=116&Itemid=165

    for example ‘to pay for shipping’. The cheque will clear into your bank account, only to be refused weeks later. At this point, the bank/building society will take the full cheque amount back out of your account. This would then leave you out of pocket...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: IT Support
    • Language: *
  10. Newbies guide to be the local computer guyhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/newbies-guide-to-be-the-local-computer-guy.html?catid=116&Itemid=165

    Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9usm7/iama_local_tech_repair_man_i_run_my_own_business/ I love the last point. Down talk as opposed to hype and then produce. Even with most services this nearly always guarantees a happy customer. "So this...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: IT Support
    • Language: *
  11. Zoho Deluge - Regex to Strip all non-numeric charactershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge/zoho-deluge-regex-to-strip-all-non-numeric-characters.html

    // yields 30 And if working with money/currencies, a one liner to maintain the decimal point v_SalesAmount = "Total : £ 5.00"; v_SalesAmount = v_SalesAmount.replaceAll("[^0-9.]",""); // yields 5.00

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho Deluge
    • Language: *
  12. Joomla Development: Possible XML Filtershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-development-possible-xml-filters.html

    to be an Integer UINT Forces the value to be an absolute number (-4.2 becomes 4.2) FLOAT Forces the value to be a floating point value BOOL Forces the value to be true or false WORD Strips anything that is not letters (including numbers) ALNUM Forces...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: en-GB
  13. Windows 7 and Google Chrome incognito mode by defaulthttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/windows-7-and-google-chrome-incognito-mode-by-default.html?catid=61&Itemid=165

    the word -incognito (including the hyphen/dash) to the end of the Target value Ok that and see if it works Note that if in point 4, if there are any spaces in that value, you should add a double-quote character to the beginning and end of the location...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Google
    • Language: en-GB
  14. The greatest invention in IThttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/the-greatest-invention-in-it.html?catid=116&Itemid=165

    future-proof and as everlasting as human error. More? "By [undoing] repeatedly, you can gradually work your way back to a point before your mistake. This is convenient if you've made a mistake four or five commands back. It is marginally useful if...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: IT Support
    • Language: *
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