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  1. SSRS Dropdown parameter cannot be blank!https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-dropdown-to-allow-blank-values.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    ticked both "Allow Blank" and "Allow NULL". How? This is the tough part. I was reading up on the MSDN page for the closest solution but it still didn't work for me. But the idea of inserting a NULL entry to select sounded good. Aim / Objective The plan...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  2. SSRS: Performance Improvements: SELECT TOPhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-performance-improvements-select-top.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    complete in under 10 seconds (7.5 seconds). We played with hardware memory, report layouts and a few days worth of other solutions dotted about the web but the biggest improvement was the "SELECT TOP 100" brain wave: -- DataSet1: SELECT TOP 100...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  3. Remove write-protect from USB pen in Windowshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/remove-write-protect-from-pen-in-windows.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    shockproof BUT NOT joe-proof!... I'm using windows 7 and my day-job machines tend to be windows xp. I found this solution on a windows xp machine so if the error happens again, I'll try fixing it on my windows 7 setup and update this article. I found...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: en-GB
  4. Formatting a date in an MDX queryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/formatting-a-date-in-an-mdx-query.html

    US dates and want the report to use a specific European date format and you spend as long as I did searching the web for a solution, then ignore all the above. Another built-in function is the text-formatter =Format(Fields!myDateTime.Value, "M/d/yy")...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: *
  5. T-SQL Record Separatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/t-sql-record-separator.html

    need to use the case statement to either put the value or your empty row. Here's an example of the query for a timetabling solution with spacing rows between days. This worked ok but pay special attention to Stage #3 afterwards otherwise if you stop in...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  6. 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
  7. Database Error: Unable to connect to the database: Could not connect to MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/database-error-unable-to-connect-to-the-database-could-not-connect-to-mysql.html

    this with you in case this your problem too. Source: Joomla Forum: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=433&t=198257 My Solution I have over 20 joomla websites on my virtual server and I haven't had this problem. I setup a website with about 20...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  8. 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 with a CROSS JOIN, (BTW these are not instructions to create some table I'll never use again unlike the rest of the solutions I found on the web). In MySQL, I only know how to do this with a UNION ALL clause. Scenario: I have a Joomla module...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  9. Getting the mysql where in delimited string to workhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/getting-the-mysql-where-in-delimited-string-to-work.html

    to do: SELECT value FROM my_table WHERE my_id IN ('1, 2, 3') SELECT value FROM my_table WHERE my_id IN ('1', '2', '3') The Solution I must confess that the bulk of this work is not mine and comes from a clever function by Chris Stubben in the MySQL...

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

    all-in-one query). The DBA responsible for the system asked me to look at ways of reducing the load on the server and the solution was to separate both tables (activities and users) rather than trying to join these, and to let PHP do a bit more of the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  11. Project Plan for Freelance Websitehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/project-plan-for-freelance-website.html

    Services (for .com, .net, .org, etc) - Note you can use the above UK ones for .com domains as well. http://www.networksolutions.com/ http://www.register.com/ http://www.godaddy.com/ http://www.cleverdot.com/ Domain Registrars for domains already...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  12. Background Gradient Disappears on Long Pageshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/background-disappears-on-long-pages.html

    appear to be fool proof because of the "background:#f7f7f7" specified at the beginning of the code but it is not. My only solution was to propose to set the background as white (#f7f7f7 - white with a tint of grey) and show the customer the unnoticeable...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: *
  13. How to run a .RUN filehttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/how-to-run-a-run-file.html?catid=63&Itemid=165

    on the file you downloaded Select 'Properties' Select the 'Permissions' tab Tick the 'Execute' checkbox Conclusion The solution using the terminal worked for me but the second one using Gnome didn't.

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Linux
    • Language: *
  14. CSS Add Text to Breadcrumb Link with a Transitionhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/css-add-text-to-breadcrumb-link-with-a-transition.html

    this only deals with the opacity transition as the width transition is not a smooth one. If anyone has a tried and working solution to the width transition then feel free to comment/message me (please test before sending it to me as I'm aware of width...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: *
  15. CSS Ordered List 1, 1.1...1.10 Formatting and Alignmenthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/css-ordered-list-1-1-1-1-10-formatting-and-alignment.html

    Item 1b... 1.9 Item 1c 1.10 Item 1d 2. Item 2 How? I've been refining this based on several examples and the following solution seems to be the most stable: ol { list-style-type: none; counter-reset: myCounter; display: table; margin: 0; padding: 5px 0...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: en-GB
  16. FTP on Mac: Failed to retrieve directory listinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/ftp/ftp-on-mac-failed-to-retrieve-directory-listing.html

    show. There's a good bit of information from the source link listed below but the settings didn't solve the problem. The solution was to change the options on the mac firewall by going into Settings > Security & Privacy > Firewall Click the lock to make...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: File Transfer Protocol
    • Language: *
  17. Embed an FLV file into a web pagehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/html/embed-an-flv-file-into-a-web-page.html

    without installing anything on your webserver. I like to use flowplayer for this example but my own systems can't use a solution as crude as this. Copy the below code (beginning and ending with object tags) Paste it into your HTML page Replace both...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Hypertext Markup Language
    • Language: *
  18. Android Background Image Resolutionshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/app-dev/android-os/android-background-image-resolutions.html

    1600x2133 (364kb) and was not displaying on smaller devices. Configuring drawables for each layout seemed to be the only solution. res/drawable-ldpi 240x320 res/drawable-mdpi 320x480 res/drawable-hdpi 480x800 res/drawable-xhdpi 640x960...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: AndroidOS
    • Language: *
  19. SSRS - Lost window with datasetshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-lost-window-with-datasets.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    parameters and datasets isn't there. I spent a bit of time enabling/disabling toolbars before I found this. Open a Report solution (or have one open already?) The menu link is "report data" and it's right at the bottom of the "View" menu.

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  20. Using a HTML form and PHP to upload a filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/using-a-html-form-and-php-to-upload-a-file.html

    (ie. ) and want a PHP file to process this. This example applies to a Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) environment. The Solution 1. The first thing to do is check that your HTML form is setup to do this:...... The form above will post to itself but more...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
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