Quadcopter App with Flight Restrictions (JQA)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/quadcopter-app.html?catid=40

24 October 2014 covered the USA, this one I wrote covers the world and can be added to really easily. It works by reading the weather data from api.openweathermap.org and the flight restriction details from api.joellipman.com (my own personal website). This allows me...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
• Language: *

Zoho Books: Generate Bank Text File for Downloadhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-generate-bank-text-file-for-download.html

02 October 2023 sat on someone's mailbox. It must be downloaded (as in browser downloads it to the computer immediately) and then removed from wherever it was downloaded from... All within ZohoBooks without using any other apps or software. How? Here's how to use it:...

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

Zoho Deluge: Get All Orders from eBayhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-all-orders-from-ebay.html

29 March 2023 Following on from my article: ZohoCRM: Get All eBay Active Listings, this is how to get all the orders from a client's eBay. Why? Our use-case is a data migration from eBay to a fresh instance of Zoho Inventory. In this task, we are simply getting a CSV...

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

MySQL: Find records in one table that are not in another.https://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-find-records-in-one-table-that-are-not-in-another.html

25 February 2011 listed in the audit table (articles yet to be approved). So this will be based on the SQL query to get just your articles from your MediaWiki CMS: -- to get articles from MediaWiki CMS: Let's call it STATEMENT1 SELECT wikimedia_page.page_id AS PageID,...

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

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

07 December 2012 This is a stored procedure I've nabbed from some consultants from my day job. It shuffles the records and matching data values: Before: ID Name DateOfBirth --------- ------------ ----------- 1 John Smith 1988-06-24 2 Fred Bloggs 1972-11-17 3 Another...

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

Zoho Books / Inventory: Get Item Rate from a Price Book/Listhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-inventory-get-item-rate-from-a-price-book-list.html

23 May 2024 ZohoBooks or ZohoInventory instance. Why? This took me the best part of an hour to determine by going through forum posts from 7 years to 2 years ago. The following will work in May 2024 following the API domain change. The use-case is that the customer...

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

Upgrading Joomla CMS version 3.x to Joomla CMS 5.xhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/upgrading-joomla-cms-version-3-x-to-joomla-cms-5-x.html

04 February 2025 An article for me or for whoever dares to upgrade their Joomla CMS from version 3 to version 5. Disclaimer: I'm used to doing this without any third-party extensions. I strongly recommend you do a backup beforehand of the database and of all your files...

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

MySQL Data Type Reference Tablehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-data-type-reference-table.html

15 February 2010 TEXT (~64Kb) rather than LONGTEXT (~4Gb). Data Type Column Type Range or Description Storage Numeric TinyInt Signed values from -128 to 127 1 byte Unsigned values from 0 to 255 Numeric SmallInt Signed values from -32768 to 32767 2 bytes Unsigned values...

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

SQL Queries for Statisticshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/sql-queries-for-statistics.html

13 December 2010 1, 0)) Staff, SUM(IF(t2.VisitorType='Student', 1, 0)) Student, SUM(IF(t2.VisitorType='Anonymous', 1, 0)) Guests FROM ( SELECT b.user_name User, CASE WHEN INSTR(b.user_name, '@staff') THEN 'Staff' WHEN INSTR(b.user_name, '@bournemouth') THEN 'Student'...

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

Returning Oracle Stored Procedure Resultset in SSRShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/returning-oracle-stored-procedure-resultset-in-ssrs.html

19 January 2012 So I've spent a fun time googling and binging but still haven't found a simple and complete example of getting a resultset from an Oracle stored procedure and displaying this in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Well "non-productive" more than "fun"...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

DataJumble - Shuffling characters in a data valuehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/data-shuffling-function.html

01 August 2012 Data-Scrambling. Why? We want to scramble sensitive data that we send to suppliers for support or analysis. With inspiration from: "Obfuscating your SQL Server Data" by John Magnabosco but tweaked for our purposes. NOTE that the following has only ever...

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

DBMS Random Referencehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/dbms-random-reference.html

21 August 2012 data for developers working with some of our databases containing sensitive data. How? SELECT DBMS_RANDOM.option1[(option2)] FROM DUAL; option1 can be: RANDOM VALUE STRING option2 can be: U (for Uppercase) L (for Lowercase) A (for AlphaNumeric) X (for...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: *

Android Java: Remove first two entries from Google News feed in SimpleRssReaderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-java-remove-first-two-entries-from-google-news-feed-in-simplerssreader.html

24 October 2014 A quick article on how to remove the first two entries from a RSS feed produced by a bunch of java files collectively known as "SimpleRssReader. Why? The original file reads of a feed from PCWorld.com. I adapted this to read a google news rss feed and...

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

Zoho Deluge: Date from a String (dd/MM/yyyy to yyyy-MM-dd)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-date-from-a-string-dd-mm-yyyy-to-yyyy-mm-dd.html

01 September 2021 A quick article to remind me of the regex to change a date from the format dd/MM/yyyy to yyyy-MM-dd. Why? Irrespective of server, organization or user settings, the date handling can vary. If we are getting a date from a CSV or other external source as...

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

Merge the content of two similar tables in MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/merge-the-content-of-two-similar-tables-in-mysql.html

11 January 2011 MySQL, I only know how to do this with a UNION ALL clause. Scenario: I have a Joomla module which should take the keywords from a specified number of different but similar tables. I'm looking to query the Title and the Introductions of any valid...

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

List MediaWiki Articleshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/mediawiki/list-mediawiki-articles.html

22 September 2011 CONVERT(t.old_text USING latin1) AS PageContent, (SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(CONVERT(wikimedia_categorylinks.cl_to USING latin1)) FROM wikimedia_categorylinks WHERE wikimedia_categorylinks.cl_from=p.page_id) AS PageCategory FROM wikimedia_page p LEFT JOIN...

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

No rows returned in Oracle causes SP to failhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/no-rows-returned-in-oracle-causes-sp-to-fail.html

24 January 2012 (ie. where rownum/rowcount = 0). Consider the following: SELECT NVL(student_accounts.studentID, 0) INTO v_studentreference FROM student_accounts WHERE student_accounts.studentUsername = trim(:p_myinparameter); SELECT...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: en-GB

DataScramble - Randomizing data rowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/datascramble-randomizing-data-rows.html

07 December 2012 Birthdate specifically: Older than 18 but younger than 100) SET @MinYear = DATEPART(YEAR,GETDATE())-100; -- 100 years ago from today SET @MaxYear = DATEPART(YEAR,GETDATE())-18; -- 18 years ago from today -- GET RANDOM DATE VALUES SELECT @RandYear =...

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

Zoho Creator: Download File from ZohoCRM field type "File Upload" (not attachments)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-download-file-from-zohocrm-field-type-file-upload-not-attachments.html

02 February 2021 ZohoCRM who upload a PDF (can be any file but is usually a PDF) to a custom module in their CRM; I then need the customer from the customer portal in a ZohoCreator app to be able to download this file. How? The trick to doing this is that actually you...

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

Joomla: Remove IDs from URLs for out-of-the-box SEFhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-remove-ids-from-urls.html

14 March 2020 to Joomla! CMS v3.5.x What? This is a short article on how to remove the ID numbers from your Joomla website addresses for search engine friendly URLs. // What I have...

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