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

02 September 2011 Oracle 10g. The Stored Procedure Rather than a returned dataset, our Stored Procedure updates a field in one of our Oracle tables and returns nothing. It accepts 3 parameters: The StudentID (reference) varchar2, Username (who's running the report)...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• 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 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 example,...

• Type: Article
• 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 the report would say the process failed but when I check the logs, it successfully ran the stored procedure (updating both tables). The Workaround I want to avoid the workaround, because so far my workaround is a fourth report which will do the select...

• 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 for the system asked me to look at ways of reducing the load on the server and the solution was to separate both tables (activities and users) rather than trying to join these, and to let PHP do a bit more of the work: User Query $t_value =...

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

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

11 October 2012 the full query to your output panel: CREATE PROCEDURE [usp_GenerateSearchbySoundexQuery] ( @p_SearchString VARCHAR(max), @p_TableSchema VARCHAR(max) ) AS...

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

DataScramble - Randomizing data rowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/datascramble-randomizing-data-rows.html

07 December 2012 Along with my DataJumble function and DataTumble procedure which also help scramble database tables sent to suppliers/developers, this is a function which simply finds random characters and inserts these. I would recommend using the DataTumble script...

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

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

19 December 2012 SQL file. (Export > Custom > Save output to file) Except for configuration.php, delete all files in TEST folder. Drop all tables in TEST database. Copy all files from LIVE to TEST (Do not overwrite configuration.php !!!) Copy database from LIVE to TEST...

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

Access MySQL databases using Oracle SQL Developerhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/access-mysql-databases-using-oracle-sql-developer.html

01 February 2013 and host location... Done! Additional I wouldn't recommend using Oracle SQL Developer. You have to use mostly SQL to create tables and stuff. Recommend to your bosses that you need the MySQL Workbench as this is FREE and with all the features you'd...

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

T-SQL concatenate an incremental row numberhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-concatenate-an-incremental-row-number.html

24 May 2013 is a quick article on how to use a counter added to the end of a field column of data. Eh. What? Assume the following two tables exist: TABLE: Employee -------------------------------------------------- ID FirstName Surname 1 Joel Lipman 2 Another Joe...

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

MySQL Oracle equivalentshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql-oracle-equivalents.html

27 September 2010 a quick list of some regular commands in MySQL that I need in Oracle: Objective MySQL Oracle - See if a table exists SHOW TABLES Select table_name from sys.dba_tables - Return a specific number of rows SELECT * FROM table1 LIMIT 0, 10 SELECT * FROM...

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

MySQL Commands to display all columnshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-commands-to-display-all-columns.html

28 October 2010 scenario is that I wanted a PHP/MySQL extension created which needs to launch a query to find all columns across the tables of the local database which had valid content to extract keywords from. The following is a MYSQL query that displays the...

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

MySQL Updating a database table from another tablehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-updating-a-database-table-from-another-table.html

22 October 2014 article on how to populate a database column from another table using a string comparison. Why? I have several database tables which replicate country names and I would rather they all use the ccTLD two letter code. This article was written because it...

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

Joes Quicklist Weblinks (JQW) Downloadshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-quicklist-weblinks-jqw-downloads.html?catid=92

07 September 2015 now "created" date. - Enhancement: Included span tags for individual elements. - Enhancement: Using div layers instead of tables. - Fixed Bug: Switched CSS ID tag to CLASS for W3C Validation. - Fixed Bug: Now allows description inline with popup (strips...

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

Zoho Deluge - Update Creator from CRMhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-update-creator-from-crm.html

18 February 2019 of creator is the one creating the connection link. The JSON response is that the update was successful but the Creator tables do not update... ZohoCreator/creatorapi option not available to enable: resolved by deleting any existing ones, refreshing the...

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

Zoho CRM & Zoho Inventory: Upload Image to Item Record using Delugehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-inventory-upload-image-to-item-record.html

21 June 2022 to the Zoho Inventory record for the respective record. As Zoho Books and Zoho Subscriptions uses the same database tables as Zoho Inventory, and there's more documentation on the API for Zoho Books, we're going to apply this solution to Zoho Books....

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

ZohoDesk & ZohoAnalytics: Display Ticket Attachments in Analytics Reporthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohodesk-zohoanalytics-display-ticket-attachments-in-analytics-report.html

05 December 2023 Why? First of all, we couldn't find how to sync attachments from ZohoDesk to ZohoAnalytics using the integration. Other tables will sync but we couldn't find attachments, so our solution here is to create a data table and then to push the attachment...

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

Zoho Creator: Render to PDF with margins and page numbershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-render-to-pdf-with-margins-and-page-numbers.html

07 May 2024 "can it be in a bigger font?"... without pushing back too much, it can end up looking like those old websites with HTML tables. We're going to use a HTML table again but that's because I want to send it to the PDF renderer in ZohoCreator and want all...

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

Zoho Analytics: Create a Monitoring System with Imageshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-analytics-create-a-monitoring-system-with-images.html

25 July 2024 and completely optional): So now I can go back to my query and expand on it a little to include the other datasources (CRM Tables): SELECT 'CRM Accounts' AS "DataSource", date(t1."ModifiedTime") AS "Date", t1."RecordID" AS "Record ID", t1."RecordName"...

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

Forgotten Super User Password in Joomla 2.5.x - 3.xhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/forgotten-super-user-password-in-joomla.html

06 February 2015 The gist: Login to your Joomla database Go to the #__users database table (where #_ is the prefix to your joomla tables) Find the column password and the row of your known user and Copy the text there Find the row of your forgotten user and Paste the...

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