Excel: Find values in one column that are not in anotherhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-find-values-in-one-column-that-are-not-in-another.html

06 March 2014 What? A quick note on how to compare two columns for values that are not found in another. I have a column with old values, and now that I have a new list, I want a quick way to see what values are in the old column and which ones are new... Why?...

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

JComments 2.3.0 with ReCaptcha in Joomla 2.5.xhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/jcomments-2-3-0-with-recaptcha-in-joomla-2-5-x.html

20 March 2014 Applies to: Joomla CMS v2.5.11 (Joomla.org) jComments v2.3.0 (JoomlaTune.com) What? Posting this as it was rather rewarding to achieve and I hope will be of some use to others in the same boat. This article details how to replace jComments built-in...

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

ReCaptcha alternative: Integrate PlayThru in JComments 2.3 for Joomla 2.5https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/recaptcha-alternative-integrate-playthru-in-jcomments-for-joomla.html

24 March 2014 Applies to: Joomla CMS v2.5.11 (Joomla.org) jComments v2.3.0 (JoomlaTune.com) PlayThru v1.1.8 (AreYouAHuman.com) What? This article is a follow-up of my article JComments 2.3.0 with Google ReCaptcha (Joomla 2.5.x) but instead of using ReCaptcha, we're...

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

Hide a Drive per User in Windows 7https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/hide-a-drive-per-user-in-windows-7.html

28 March 2014 Applies to: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional What? Looking at ways of displaying different drives per user on a single computer. This one is by modifying the system registry, so if you aren't familiar with the system registry in MS Windows, you may need...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: *

301 Redirect using htaccess filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/301-redirect-using-htaccess-file.html

03 April 2014 What? There are a lot of articles & posts out there that cover the same topic, but as this took me the good part of an hour just to find out, I'm posting it here so I never have to look for it again. A client changed their website domain address and...

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

SSRS Stop Scrolling Behindhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-stop-scrolling-behind.html

08 April 2014 Applies to: Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2008 R2 Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio What? I recently revamped our standard report with a new template comprising of a single Tablix which...

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

ReCaptcha alternative: Integrate PlayThru in JComments 3.0 for Joomla 3.2https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/recaptcha-alternative-integrate-playthru-in-jcomments-3-0-for-joomla-3-2.html

27 April 2014 Applies to: Joomla CMS v3.2.3 (Joomla.org) jComments v3.0.0 (JoomlaTune.com) PlayThru v1.1.8 (AreYouAHuman.com) What? This article is a follow on from my article JComments 2.3 with PlayThru (Joomla 2.5.x) but this is for a later version of the...

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

Convert to Proper Case in T-SQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/convert-to-proper-case-in-t-sql.html

04 June 2014 What? So this is an article exploring how to convert UPPERCASE text into mixed case. The feed is originally for a personnel feed so it won't be converting long paragraphs of English text. Instead it will be applied to names and addresses as well as job...

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

SSIS: How to loop through multiple flat files as data sourceshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-how-to-loop-through-multiple-flat-files-as-data-sources.html

13 June 2014 What? This is an article to demonstrate a quick step-by-step on having an SSIS package loop through a directory/folder of files in order to populate a database table. We could add each file as a separate connection manager but this is inefficient and...

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

Include a carriage return in a column headinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sql-server/include-a-carriage-return-in-a-column-heading.html

07 July 2014 Applies To: MS SQL Server 2008 R2 MS Windows 7 Enterprise (Client) MS Excel 2010 What? A really quick note on how to insert a carriage return or new line into the column name/alias (the header). It might seem trivial but these little aesthetic changes...

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

mysqldump: Got error: 2049: Connection using old (pre-4.1.1) authentication protocol refused (client option 'secure_auth' enabled) when trying to connecthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysqldump-got-error-2049-connection-using-old-pre-4-1-1-authentication-protocol-refused-client-option-secure-auth-enabled-when-trying-to-connect.html

28 July 2014 Applies to: MySQL Database v5.0.45 MySQL Workbench v6.0.8.11354 build 833 What? This is a quick article on how to get around the problem of backing up your MySQL database when attempting to "Data Export" using MySQL Workbench. This is not regarding the...

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

SSIS Multiple Lookups in onehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-multiple-lookups-in-one.html

05 August 2014 What? A quick article on an alternative to multiple lookups in SSIS. For any SSIS developer trying to create packages that need to decode a number of values into their full name/description (eg. "M" to "Male", "Prof" to "Professor"). Why? Our extract...

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

Batch Process to rename multiple files using Windows DOShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/batch-process-to-rename-multiple-files-using-windows-dos.html

09 August 2014 Applies to: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Ms-DOS Command Prompt (6.1.7601) What? A quick article on how to rename multiple files using the command prompt and a bit of string manipulation. This example will rename files which contain the string "...

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

Setting a rocket theme background to fixedhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/setting-a-rocket-theme-background-to-fixed.html

06 September 2009 You can probably find this information of the rocket theme forum but I thought I'd put how I resolved this here. The issue is basically that you want the background to stay in its position in the browser while the rest of the elements scroll about. Go...

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

Hide Menu Item from Registered and Special https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/hide-menu-item-from-registered-and-special.html

06 September 2009 Hide Menu Item from Registered and Special Refer to this link if you want to clean out a front-end admin interface with your website's style. The following is from http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=252258&start=0 at this date/time. Can't...

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

Security Checklistshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/security-checklists.html

06 September 2009 Basically the gist of http://docs.joomla.org/Security_Checkli … omla_Setup is as follows: Security Checklist 4 - Joomla Setup 1. Install official versions of Joomla 2. Change the default administrator username 3. Protect directories and files 4. Adjust...

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

SITS: Export field code and namehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/sits-export-field-code-and-name.html

12 August 2014 Applies to: Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise SITS:Vision Students (v8.7.0) What? You might be able to work it out from the online manuals but it took me a while, we wanted to bring back both the code and the lookup value in our XML to our Staging...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Extensible Markup Language
• Language: *

XML Schema Referencehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/xml-schema-reference.html

13 August 2014 XSD Elements Element Explanation all Specifies that the child elements can appear in any order. Each child element can occur 0 or 1 time annotation Specifies the top-level element for schema comments any Enables the author to extend the XML document...

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

T-SQL functions to convert Strings to Tableshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-functions-to-convert-strings-to-tables.html

20 August 2014 Applies 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...

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

A quick run through of setting up an export process in SITShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/a-quick-run-through-of-setting-up-an-export-process-in-sits.html

21 August 2014 Applies to SITS:Vision v8.7.0 Uniface v9.6.03 Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SP1) - 11.0.3128.0 What? "Quick" may not be the right word, so this is a somewhat summarized article on how to get data out of SITS, up to running the monitors...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Extensible Markup Language
• Language: *