Crystal Reports: Exporting to Excel omits column headershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/crystal-reports-exporting-to-excel-omits-column-headers.html

03 June 2010 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

Modifying columns in a tablehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/modifying-columns-in-a-table.html

24 July 2013 This is an article to remind me how to modify a column in a database table the old fashioned way (as in stop making me use GUI interfaces so poorly programmed when even I've made better DBMS tools). All SQL -- Add a column to an existing table (giving...

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

Increment a column in MySQL using the UPDATE queryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/increment-a-column-in-mysql-using-the-update-query.html

18 February 2010 Suppose you have a column in your table that you use as a counter (storing the value of the counter - eg. times an article has been displayed). Basically what I used to do is something similar to the following: SELECT counter_field_value FROM table1...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• Language: en-GB

SQL: Use CASE for Relevance columnhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/sql-use-case-for-relevance-column.html

03 August 2013 So this is a quick note to myself as I was playing with the relevance heuristics of a query. This example adds a column of relevance and sorts the rows accordingly. How? This has to be a real quick one for a dropdown search field which has to find...

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

Select unique values in Microsoft Excel columnhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/select-distinct-values-in-microsoft-excel-column.html

03 July 2012 Thought I'd put a quick note here, I tried a fair few solutions that didn't work and then found this hidden away in a forum: Quick Count =INT(SUMPRODUCT((A3:A1000"")/COUNTIF(A3:A1000,A3:A1000&""))) This returns the number of unique values in the range...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Excel
• Language: en-GB

T-SQL Record Separatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-record-separator.html

11 October 2011 where a row of data (blank or made of symbols) separates two sets of data from within the same select query based on a column that's different. So for example, I have data like the following: SELECT DATENAME(dw, StartDate) AS 'Day' FROM Timetable ORDER...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: en-GB

Search a database for a string (MySQL, T-SQL)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/search-a-database-for-a-string-mysql-t-sql.html

08 October 2012 DECLARE @mySearchString varchar(50); SET @mySearchString = 'dnya'; DECLARE MyCursor CURSOR FOR SELECT 'SELECT ' + COLUMN_NAME + ' COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS AS column1 FROM ' + (TABLE_SCHEMA + '.' + TABLE_NAME) + ' WHERE SOUNDEX(' + COLUMN_NAME +...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Databases
• Language: en-GB

Compare two databases using T-SQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/compare-two-databases-using-t-sql.html

24 September 2013 on this. Method #1 I got this first query from the awesome site that is StackOverflow: SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS Run this command against both databases and you have their full schemas. Use a comparison tool to compare the outputs. Method...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: en-GB

MySQL Commands to display all columnshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-commands-to-display-all-columns.html

28 October 2010 scenario is that I wanted a PHP/MySQL extension created which needs to launch a query to find all columns across the tables of the local database which had valid content to extract keywords from. The following is a MYSQL query that displays the...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• Language: en-GB

MS Excel: Convert a text to a numberhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/ms-excel-convert-a-text-to-a-number.html

15 November 2013 some cells in Microsoft Excel to number values... Why? OMG. Seriously Microsoft! I have spent an hour trying to convert a column of currency values to a number using Microsoft Excel 2010. Since when did MS Excel stop understanding what a NUMBER was? I...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Excel
• Language: en-GB

JDatabase: using the Joomla database with exampleshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/jdatabase-using-the-joomla-database.html

27 January 2013 . '=42') ->order('date_modified ASC'); Single Value Result This type of query is for when you want just one value from one column and one particular row. $db = JFactory::getDbo(); $query = $db->getQuery(true); $query->select('email')...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: en-GB

T-SQL: Parse an XML valuehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-parse-an-xml-value.html

27 March 2014 in a database and rather than a separate file, it stores these in a row. How? Assuming the following data exists in the column "Event_XML" value of the table "XML_EVENTS": 123456 Mr J JOEL LIPMAN MALE 1990-01-01 SUPER SUPPORT TEAM GENERAL DOGSBODY...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: en-GB

Autohotkey - Chrome Profiles in Alphabetical Orderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-chrome-profiles-in-alphabetical-order.html

07 January 2020 named "Profile 1", "Profile 2", etc. Scan the preferences file for JSON key "name" and extract value. Hide the first column in the list view (contains "Profile 1", "Profile 2",...) Sort the second column (contains "Joes Personal Profile", "Joes Work...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AutoHotkey
• Language: en-GB

Zoho CRM: Manage a subform using Client Scripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-manage-a-subform-using-client-script.html

09 December 2022 new Object(); // get some values beforehand which allows us to compare to the rows already present in the subform // first column to add in this row is start date (retrieved from field "Actual Start Date" on this record) var v_StartDateValue =...

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

MySQL Group_concat equivalent in T-SQL and Oraclehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql-groupconcat-equivalent-in-t-sql-and-oracle.html

28 November 2011 any day. I use this quite a lot so I thought I'd put an article here somewhere. Based on the following concept: RowID column_to_return_as_string --------- -------------------------- 1 Me 2 Myself 3 I -- to be returned as RowID my_field_name ---------...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Databases
• Language: en-GB

SQL Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/sql-calendar-in-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

14 January 2011 on. [Order] = DENSE_RANK() OVER (ORDER BY d.[Date]), -- date used in all calculations for date d.[Date], --generates matrix columns [WeekDay] = DATEPART(WEEKDAY, d.[Date]), --used to display day of month on calendar [Day] = DATEPART(DAY,d.[Date]),...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: en-GB

Room Availability Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/room-availability-calendar-in-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

23 March 2011 I tried and I spent a few hours searching the net for a solution which displays the hours in the top columns, and undefined number of rooms in the rows. No all I was looking for was a calendar showing 1 day with the hours on the top. Working hours only...

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

T-SQL example of Case-Sensitive Soundexhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-example-of-case-sensitive-soundex.html

10 October 2012 and then listing all the variations based on case-sensitivity. Why? We have a database with data in it. For a particular column we have setup default values, let's use the example "Data Not Yet Available". Unfortunately the end-user reported these...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: en-GB

DataTumble - Randomize Data Rowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/datatumble-randomize-data-rows.html

07 December 2012 on DataJumble and DataScramble). How? CREATE PROCEDURE [Common].[usp_ScrambleMultivalue] ( @TableName VARCHAR(MAX), @ColumnName VARCHAR(MAX), @WhereClause VARCHAR(MAX) = NULL ) AS...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: *

Cheat Sheet for mySQL vs t-SQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/cheat-sheet-for-mysql-vs-t-sql.html

31 January 2013 If-then-else IF( expression,value_if_true,value_if_false ) IIF( expression,value_if_true,value_if_false ) If Null IFNULL(column_name,value_if_null) ISNULL(column_name,value_if_null) Rank/Rownum (@rownum:=@rownum+1) AS Rownum LIMIT from_index,...

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