Report Builder 2.0 - Hide Series1https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/report-builder-20-hide-series1.html

06 May 2010 displays on my chart because of values that are not matched (not assigned to a current individual) in the joining tables: Return to the Design interface (F8) Right-click on your dataset (in my case: DataSet1) Select 'Dataset Properties' Add a condition...

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

Returned a data type that is not validhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/returned-a-data-type-that-is-not-valid.html

06 January 2011 report processing. An error has occurred during report processing. The Group expression used in grouping 'table1_month' returned a data type that is not valid. My DataSet Query was as follows: SELECT CONCAT(MONTHNAME(t1.Date), ' ', YEAR(t1.Date)) Month,...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• 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 but similar tables. I'm looking to query the Title and the Introductions of any valid articles from BOTH tables and return one table with everything I want. Consider the following two tables exist: Joomla Articles (table name: jos_content): id title...

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

Migrate Joomla! 1.5.x to 2.5.x+https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-15-to-16.html

30 January 2011 -- If you select the part of each expression from the SELECT and run these -- to see what results are returned, it is reading only and not making any -- changes. It will show you what data the query is planning to migrate. -- EXAMPLE: -- SET...

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

SSRS Hide results table if emptyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-hide-results-table-if-empty.html

29 March 2011 which kinda defeats the purpose of having anything there. I want my end-users to have faith in my report. The report just returning blank can also mean "I don't know". I want the report to either return the correct value or say "No data found". My...

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

Inserting incremental weeks in MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/inserting-incremental-weeks-in-mysql.html

15 April 2011 in his last year. He used functions to mktime and simulate the dates. A function goes in with a normal calendar date and returns an academic week number and the week commencing date. Problem? The 1st of January 2010 was a Friday. The 1st of January 2011...

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

Run commands for Windowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/run-commands-for-windows.html

05 July 2011 At The Next Boot) sfc /scanonce System File Checker Utility (Scan On Every Boot) sfc /scanboot System File Checker Utility (Return Scan Setting To Default) sfc /revert System File Checker Utility (Purge File Cache) sfc /purgecache System File Checker...

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

Before and After, Highs and Lowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/before-and-after-highs-and-lows.html

03 August 2011 I'm looking for a SQL query that could do this all in one go and return all the results in one table. With PHP & MySQL it's pretty simple: use individual SQL queries to get the count of yesterday, yesterweek, yestermonth, yesteryear and do the layout in...

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

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

08 August 2011 error is recorded ByteCount bigint NOT NULL Size of rendered reports in bytes. RowCount bigint NOT NULL Number of rows returned from queries. Conversions Needed: I want to convert a start and end date to a single time value (hours minutes seconds...

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

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

05 September 2011 against wall. Bang "Head" against wall. Bang "Head" against wall. Alternatively Change the SQL query so that the date returns in yyyy-mm-dd format (eg. 2012-03-04) Reverse Dates Order If you have a date filter list and want it sorted in descending...

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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 goes hand in hand with CHAR(10) and although it displayed and printed properly, when saving as a PDF, CHAR(13) would return weird question mark symbols instead. Bonus All rows with this would be about 3 lines of text in height. Data with 4 lines of text...

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

SSRS Retrieving Oracle Stored Procedure Success or ErrorLevelhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-retrieving-oracle-stored-procedure-success-or-errorlevel.html

04 November 2011 table Inserts a row into an audit table I need the report to run the stored procedure, then based on the errorlevel, return a message. How? We use a database account with read-only privileges to list all the details. On the last report, the one to...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• 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 us as SSRS performance is always rubbish anyway. Here's a breakdown of the MDX expressions and how I tweaked each one to return the final result: -- to get just the time value =( CDate(Last(Fields!REPORTENDTIME.Value, "Dataset2")) -...

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

Performance Report - Background colors based on dataset valueshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/green-red-background-colors-based-on-dataset-values.html

02 December 2011 is specified (type=2) then datasources and folders will also show. The Side-by-Side Table As you know, most datasets will return the rows as... rows. My pic above shows my 4 reports results side by side. To do this, I had to insert a Matrix rather than...

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

Getting the mysql where in delimited string to workhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/getting-the-mysql-where-in-delimited-string-to-work.html

02 January 2012 0; -- counter for the loop DECLARE str_len INT; -- string length,self explanatory DECLARE out_str text DEFAULT ''; -- return string holder DECLARE temp_str text DEFAULT ''; -- temporary string holder DECLARE temp_val VARCHAR(255) DEFAULT ''; --...

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

Basic Oracle Stored Procedure Structurehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/basic-oracle-stored-procedure-structure.html

16 January 2012 run standard PL/SQL commands... unless they're run from within a stored procedure. Our aim is to run a small query first to return the ID of the student, and then to use this number in a second query which we're hoping will be quicker than a...

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

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

19 January 2012 ( p_STUDENT_ADNAME IN varchar2, l_CURSOR OUT sys_refcursor ) IS BEGIN -- going to declare variables that are to be returned in SSRS but not -- mentioned in the above OUT variables: DECLARE p_STUDENT_REF number(8); p_STUDENT_DETAILS varchar2(255); --...

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• 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 DROP FUNCTION ufn_DataJumble ; GO -- Create user defined function CREATE FUNCTION ufn_DataJumble ( @OrigVal varchar(max) ) RETURNS varchar(max) WITH ENCRYPTION AS BEGIN -- Variables used DECLARE @NewVal varchar(max); DECLARE @OrigLen int; DECLARE...

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

Copy a table with structure and data into a temporary tablehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/copy-a-table-with-structure-and-data-into-a-temporary-table.html

03 August 2012 at least the idea of): SELECT * INTO #MyTempTable FROM @GivenTable If @GivenTable is a parameter then the above will simply return an error. Also, if it was this easy, I wouldn't need to post this note on my website. Thinking outside of the box Hooray...

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

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 ** ** EXEC [usp_ListDistinctValuesAndCounts] 'myDB.dbo.myTable', 'myColumn1,myColumn2', 'Latin1_General_CS_AS'; ** ** ** ** Return Values : Table of three columns: ** ** - myValue: the distinct values ** ** - myColumn: the column this value was found...

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