T-SQL Conversion failed when converting the varchar to data type inthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-conversion-failed-when-converting-the-varchar-to-data-type-int.html

14 May 2013 What? A very quick note in case I forget this one. If you are trying to join two tables and receiving the error "Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'B110' to data type int" then read on. How? So where does the 'B110' string come from,...

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

Autohotkey Count Number of Files/Folders in a Directoryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-count-number-of-files-folders-in-a-directory.html

04 June 2013 What? So this is an article to list methods of retrieving the number of files in a folder/directory. Why? Why can't we just use a loop and file pattern native to the Autohotkey programming language: UserFolder:="C:" -- UserFolder := RegExReplace(...

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

Reorder Columns in a Tablehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/reorder-columns-in-a-table.html

22 July 2013 What? Just a quick note to myself on how to reorder columns as I was having difficulty using a phpMyAdmin interface to do this. How? Taken from the best forum for programming Qs&As: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4095481/easy-way-to-re-order-columns...

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

Split a row into multiple rows based on a column valuehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/split-a-row-into-multiple-rows-based-on-a-column-value.html

23 August 2013 Applies to Transact-SQL (T-SQL) What? This is a quick article on how to split a single row into multipe rows based on the value of a column in the same table. Why? I have a table that has all the days of sickness of employees. This table contains, which...

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

htaccess Rewrites SEF URL and submits to PHPhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/htaccess-rewrites-sef-url-and-submits-to-php.html

05 September 2013 What? A quick note on a htaccess rewrite rule I'm liking. What does it do? What I type: http://www.mywebsite.com/blog/videos.html Sends this to server: http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php?myFolder=blog&myFiles=videos How? Options -Indexes +FollowSymlinks...

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

Joomla: Unable to find install packagehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-unable-to-find-install-package.html

05 September 2009 This issue happened with a friend who was trying to upload extensions. You should find that the configuration file is unwriteable (and that you can't change it using the joomla interface). In the end to resolve this, he had to do a fresh install and...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• 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 Applies to: MS SQL Server Management Studio 2008 Two Transact-SQL databases What? A quick article on how to compare two Microsoft databases using the tools provided with SQL Server and without having to download any third-party products. Why? I googled...

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

Joomla Component: Set default params on installationhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-component-set-default-params-on-installation.html

24 October 2013 What? I'm making a custom component for Joomla CMS 2.5.x which is restricted to registered users only. On installation, and by default, the menu item returns a 500 - Server Error because the parameters haven't been set. I need to go into the Joomla...

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

Creating a custom form field type for Joomla XML fieldsethttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/creating-a-custom-form-field-type-for-joomla-xml-fieldset.html

25 October 2013 What? I'm writing a Joomla 2.5.x component for logging time and projects and need a dropdown to have selectable options restricted to the logged-in user. This is specified in the XML file of the custom Joomla component and needs some SQL dependent on...

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

Regular Expression Basic Usage Exampleshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/regular-expression-basic-usage-examples.html

28 October 2013 What? A quick reminder on basic regular expressions. Match Any Character — Dot The dot operator '.' matches any single character in the current character set. For example, to find the sequence--'a', followed by any character, followed by 'c'--use...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Web-Development
• Language: *

Problem creating SSRS report subscriptionshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/problem-creating-ssrs-report-subscriptions.html

11 November 2013 What? A quick article on if you are trying to create a new subscription to a SQL Server Reporting Server (SSRS) report and you are getting a warning message similar to the following: Message from webpage Subscriptions cannot be created because the...

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

Client Services: Website Development Agreementhttps://www.joellipman.com/static-items/client-services-website-development-agreement.html

15 November 2013 be mutually agreed. As the client, feel free to adjust, suggest and query against this. Here is an outline agreement between joellipman.com and you: Once I have the domain names, I will configure my server to receive requests for those domains (along...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Static Items
• Language: *

Call to a member function mark() on a non-object in Joomla CMShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/call-to-a-member-function-mark-on-a-non-object.html

17 November 2013 What? This is a quick note on one reason you may get the above error in a Joomla CMS environment. Call to a member function mark() on a non-object in /public_html/index.php How? Not really a solution here because this is indicating that the system can't...

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

ReCaptcha disappears from Joomla 2.5 Registrationhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/recaptcha-disappears-from-joomla-2-5-registration.html

24 November 2013 What? This is an extract from a forum which solved our problem for why the ReCaptcha part disappears from the user registration form. We have Joomla 2.5.16 installed and no new updates for a plugin that comes with Joomla 2.5 install. How? Source:...

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

Transferring Apps (purchases) from iPhone 4s to 5s on a Windows PChttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/apple/ios/transferring-apps-purchases-from-iphone-4s-to-5s-on-a-windows-pc.html

03 November 2013 Applies to: Apple iOS 7 Apple iTunes 11.1.3.8 Microsoft Windows 7 Professional What? Just so many articles out there that did not help me. This article is how I finally did mine. Why? I had paid for some apps on my old phone and realized that if I...

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

Generate a Timesheet in MySQL https://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/generate-a-timesheet-in-mysql.html

05 December 2013 What? This article is to remind me how to create a blank weekly timesheet which reads the duration of events from a database and auto-completes your timesheet. Why? I'm being tasked to work with EPM (Microsoft Enterprise Project Management) more and...

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

Joes Password Analyzer (JPA)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-password-analyzer-jpa.html?catid=40

03 January 2014 corrections, improvements or just to give an opinion. Use it! It's absolutely FREE! The password analyzer URL is: www.joellipman.com/services/password-analyzer.html. Enjoy!

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

MS-DOS: Copy folders without overwriting fileshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/ms-dos-copy-folders-without-overwriting-files.html

23 February 2014 What? A quick note on how to copy files and folders over without overwriting existing files. It's easy to say "Yes" and replace all files. What I need is something that synchronizes files on an internal hard drive to an external one. I wanted it to copy...

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

Registered Users Cannot Login - Super Users Canhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/registered-users-cannot-login-super-users-can.html

26 February 2014 Applies to Joomla CMS v2.5.14 What? This article is a note on how I fixed an issue on a client site. The website had a redirect on the login which would go to a page accessible by "registered" users but only "Super Users" could actually login....

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

Export Joomla Users scripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/export-joomla-users-script.html

28 February 2014 What? Somebody said I could pay to get an export list of my Joomla users. I said Joomla is a FREE OpenSource system, why? Why? I want to move a client's list of Joomla users to a new system which allows the passwords to be in MD5. All I want is a quick...

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