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

08 August 2011 = ExecutionLog.ReportID WHERE ExecutionLog.TimeStart BETWEEN @DateFrom AND @DateTo AND Type = 2 ) AS RE GROUP BY Name ORDER BY COUNT(Name) DESC , Name

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

MySQL parameters in Excel 2007 PivotTableshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-parameters-in-excel-2007-pivottables.html

24 August 2011 INNER JOIN Resources r ON r.ThisResourceID=s.CategoryID INNER JOIN Teams t ON t.TeamID=s.TeamID GROUP BY s.LogID ORDER BY s.TeamID, u.Username, s.DateTimeCreated, Resource Note there is no WHERE clause because we're going to use EXCEL filters as the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• 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 if datasource is correct): Before you close this box, click on "Parameters" in the right and specify your parameters in the order that they are accepted by your stored procedure (eg. MyStoredProcedure(param1,param2,param3) -> param1=@param1,...

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

MySQL: Display Users and Duration in Matrix Timesheethttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-display-users-and-duration-in-matrix-timesheet.html

27 April 2012 u.LastName) AS 'Fullname' FROM Users u WHERE u.StatusType NOT IN ('expired','guest','test account') AND u.TeamID='$t_value' ORDER BY CONCAT(u.FirstName, ' ', u.LastName) "; Activity Query $w_value = $number_of_weeks_from_now; // usually 0 for this week,...

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

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

01 August 2012 but it depends on what you mean by "scrambling". This is a function which merely uses the same characters but switches their order randomly, so I've renamed it DataJumble as opposed to my article on Data-Scrambling. Why? We want to scramble sensitive...

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

Connect to Joomla database in standalone scripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/connect-to-joomla-database-in-standalone-script.html

17 August 2012 connect to the database but as they sit outside of the MVC structure, we need them to use the existing configuration file in order to retrieve the credentials (ie. username, password, database, etc.). For obvious reasons, these cannot be hardcoded....

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• 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 SUM(myCount) AS myCount FROM #ListDistinctValuesAndCounts GROUP BY myValue COLLATE ' + @p_UseCollation + ', myColumn ORDER BY myColumn, myValue '; EXEC(@SqlToExecute); END

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

Search a database for a value and count matching rowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/search-a-database-for-a-value-and-count-matching-rows.html

05 November 2012 SELECT TABLE_CATALOG + '.' + TABLE_SCHEMA + '.' + TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE COLUMN_NAME = @p_Column ORDER BY TABLE_CATALOG, TABLE_SCHEMA, TABLE_NAME; -- Create temporary table to hold results CREATE TABLE...

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

Battery Constantly Drained on iPhonehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/apple/battery-constantly-drained-on-iphone.html

27 November 2012 you that location services is enabled but it is attached to a reminder that needs to constantly monitor your whereabouts in order to "remind you". The reminder here was to charge the phone but it was the reminder which would drain a full charge in less...

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

Setup a copy of your Joomla websitehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/setup-a-copy-of-your-joomla-website.html

19 December 2012 http://qa1.mysite.com. When working with a FTP client this also helps as all you are usually changing is a folder name in order to quickly point to LIVE or TEST. Confirm with each person aware of this setup and involved in the development, that they...

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

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

31 January 2013 Rank/Rownum (@rownum:=@rownum+1) AS Rownum LIMIT from_index, number_of_rows ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY column_name ASC) AS Rownum Source(s): MSDN Microsoft Library (DATEPART (Transact-SQL)) MSDN Microsoft Library (DATENAME (Transact-SQL)) MySQL...

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

MS Excel - Sort pivottable column headings by datehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/sort-pivottable-column-headings-by-date.html

12 April 2013 wrong tree. If I padded with one more zero so that "008" is before "010": Great! The columns are displayed in the correct order but who's ever seen a date written as the 008th of April? What if we didn't use parentheses? Then it wouldn't be evaluated as...

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

Things to Check if Joomla Password Reminder email not being senthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/things-to-check-if-joomla-password-reminder-email-not-being-sent.html

09 May 2013 has been made to reset your %s account password. To reset your password, you will need to submit this verification code in order to verify that the request was legitimate.\n\nThe verification code is %s\n\nClick on the URL below to enter the...

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

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

22 July 2013 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: *

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

15 November 2013 we lose contact with each other, the project manager has the option of going to another developer with the source files in order to continue the work. JoelLipman.Com will produce a signed-off production site as per the initial specification: Front-end...

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

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

26 February 2014 asset that has a parent_id of zero. Login to your database using phpMyAdmin, open the table with the suffix "_assets" and order the data (clicking on the heading of the column) by their parent_id. If you see more than one record with a value of 0, then...

• Type: Article
• 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 Looping -- From resultset of $i ,assigning it to variable $j using let clause, -- Getting top two employees by using where & order by clause. SELECT Event_XML.query('for $i in /STAFF/student let $j:= $i where ($j/@ID)

• 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 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 not...

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

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 I want to export for offline backup. I have to raise and log a formal change request and follow a workflow process in order to make a change on a live system to a service user account... Especially one used by the scripts to access the database-driven...

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

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

13 August 2014 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 with...

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