Windows 7 Aero Featureshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/windows-7-aero-features.html

27 April 2010 the same time. It will give you a 3D effect that will allow you to “Flip” between the different windows. Keep holding the Microsoft Logo key and pressing the Tab key to rotate between the different windows. As with previous versions of MS Windows,...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: en-GB

Language Codeshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/language-codes.html

13 September 2010 tn Tswana tr Turkish uk Ukrainian ur Urdu ve Venda vi Vietnamese xh Xhosa ji Yiddish zu Zulu Nabbed from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533052(VS.85).aspx

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

Create Read-Only Database User in SQL Serverhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/create-read-only-database-user-in-sql-server.html

09 November 2010 Confirm by clicking OK. You should get something like the following: Database-level role names from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189121(SQL.100).aspx db_accessadmin Members of the db_accessadmin fixed database role can add or remove access...

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

Difference between two dates - the midnight hourhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/difference-between-two-dates-the-midnight-hour.html

06 April 2011 that date as long as the "To Date" never goes past midnight into the next day... But what system doesn't do this (no Microsoft jokes please)? The Solution Eureka! Or duh! for those that it's obvious to... Compare the two timestamps, if the "To date" is...

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

Checklist for the local computer repairshttps://www.joellipman.com/hardware/checklist-for-the-local-computer-repairs.html

28 April 2011 RAM (eg. x Accessories > System Tools > Disk drive cleanup tool. Check Windows Eventviewer for all errors. Versions of Microsoft Office installed? Printing: Can you print any other documents? Have you tried printing to another printer? Can you print...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: IT Support
• Language: *

Joes FREE Website Thumbnailer (JWT)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-free-website-thumbnailer.html?catid=40

28 June 2011 or even raised as issues. I'm not them; add as a comment to this article or email me and that will be the support ticket. Microsoft Windows Only I know, what has the world come to? No Linux/Mac versions as I don't know how to program for these. Not...

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

Sort order a dropdown list in MS InfoPath without programminghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/infopath/sort-order-a-dropdown-list-in-ms-infopath-without-programming.html

21 July 2011 So this is for Microsoft Office Infopath 2007 (SharePoint 2007). The situation is that I started creating a SharePoint List (datasheet) and when I made my form dropdown read from the list, it just put elements in the order that I entered them in the...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Infopath
• Language: *

The ReportServer Databasehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/the-reportserver-database.html

08 August 2011 I have just spent all morning on Microsoft websites to determine what number is the TimeDataRetrieval column displaying. Thank you I know it's an INT. There is just a serious lack of documentation as to what this database is and how it populates its...

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

SSRS Parameters in Oracle Stored Procedurehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-parameters-in-oracle-stored-procedure.html

02 September 2011 So this is regarding an error when trying to add parameters to a Stored Procedure of an Oracle database from within Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. The Error ORA-00911: invalid character ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_UTILITY", line 114 ORA-06512: at...

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

Excel PivotTable Filter List Orderinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-pivottable-filter-list-ordering.html

05 September 2011 back into "Report Filter" Done! The filter dropdown should retain the order. Alternatively Similar to the above, open a Microsoft product Bang "Head" against wall. Bang "Head" against wall. Bang "Head" against wall. Alternatively Change the SQL query so...

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

Stop Excel Row Height Self-Adjust on Refreshhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/stop-excel-row-height-self-adjust-on-refresh.html

30 September 2011 Situation I have a Microsoft Excel 2007 file that connects to a SQL Server 2008 R2 database. The Excel file pulls data using lookup tables and displays the data in an Excel Spreadsheet. The Problem We can select all cells and set row height to be 30 for...

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

How to Display Report Execution Time in SSRS (milliseconds)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/how-to-display-report-execution-time-in-ssrs.html

17 November 2011 ORDER BY e.TimeStart DESC Deploy the report to the SSRS Run the report from MS Internet Explorer Check results using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) My test results showed that in fact my time was closer to the "TimeProcessing" field of...

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

SSRS Dropdown parameter cannot be blank!https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-dropdown-to-allow-blank-values.html

14 December 2011 to match the datatype used by our reporting server for the ItemID field which is some sort of hexadecimal ID value that Microsoft are so very fond of. You will need to use your own head to match the datatypes for including a dummy row. Also note that...

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

Prefix Line Numbers in a Text Filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/prefix-line-numbers-to-a-text-file.html

18 July 2012 Prefixing lines with their respective line number in a text file using a Microsoft Windows Operating System... I've just googled this as I couldn't remember how I did this last time and a number of people showing off their MS-DOS batch skills have...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MS-DOS
• Language: *

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 FETCH NEXT FROM MyCursor INTO @SqlToExecute END CLOSE MyCursor DEALLOCATE MyCursor T-SQL Source: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/c0c57332-8624-48c0-b4c3-5b31fe641c58 - Sorna Kumar IF OBJECT_ID('usp_SearchDB','P') IS NOT NULL DROP...

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

Search a database with SOUNDEXhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/search-a-database-with-soundex.html

11 October 2012 ** ** Correct the value for EthnicCode and re-run the code. ** ** ** ** Link to other SQL Server collations: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180175.aspx ** ** **...

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

Stored Procedure to List Distinct Values and Countshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/stored-procedure-to-list-distinct-values-and-counts.html

26 October 2012 the number of times this value was found in this column. ** ** ** ** Link to other SQL Server collations: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180175.aspx ** ** **...

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

Restore MSSQL Error: Database is in usehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/restore-mssql-error-database-is-in-use.html

08 March 2013 is a doddle and doesn't warrant its own article but for those of us who merely use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 R2 for development purposes, the once-in-a-blue-moon restore from backup process is quickly forgotten....

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

SSIS Convert a string into a datehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-convert-a-string-into-a-date.html

14 March 2013 + "-" + SUBSTRING(Date,1,2) + " 00:00:00") So although your SSIS IDE (Visual Studio?) will give you a useless Microsoft message saying something like: Error: Data conversion failed while converting column "This_Date" (3833) to column "This_Date" (3932)....

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

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 plus signs and thinks it's super clever when it tries to add a number and a string together; then remembers it's a Microsoft by-product and realises it can't. Solved by checking the datatypes for each field in the concatenation string:...

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