MySQL last year week month day trend periodshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-last-year-week-month-day-trend.html

31 October 2011 with yesterdays up to the same hour. How? I used to use a lot more PHP but since becoming an analyst, I do more at the database level now. What follows should be usable mySQL statements to get all the numbers: Yesterdays -- CURRENT: count todays SELECT...

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

Prices get rounded up in Virtuemarthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/ecommerce/virtuemart/prices-get-rounded-up-in-virtuemart.html

27 September 2009 to convert any number to a currency or two decimal places. Another suggestion was to alter the main virtuemart database table (jos_vm_prodcut_price)... Don't do any of these things! After modifying tax rates and ensuring these were all the same, we also...

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

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 or slowest in the set. Something like: The DataSet This should work on your reporting server as well. I'm using the database "ReportServer". select * from ( SELECT TOP 1 c.[Name] AS [ReportName] , e.[ReportID] AS [ReportID] , e.[TimeStart] AS...

• Type: Article
• 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 I have a mySQL database table of room assets that has a field containing the ID numbers of images relevant to this room. The Problem? When I select specifying the statement "WHERE IN (c.RoomImages)", this is interpreted as a string and when converted to...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• 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 Data Activities by employees with start dates and end dates in a mySQL database. Objective User Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Total --------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- --------- Me 09:00 07:30 08:00 07:00 06:00 00:00...

• 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 environments and I would not recommend running this on a production system as I have not tested the performance and database load. Before: StudentID StudentName DateOfBirth ----------- -------------------- ------------- 1 John Smith 1990-03-21 2 Fred...

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

After installing rokstories, get invalid argument 106https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/after-installing-rokstories-get-invalid-argument-106.html

14 January 2010 called "unused menuitems" (named unusedmenu), which isn't displayed anywhere on my site. I'm guessing the reference in the database is what corrects this.

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

T-SQL example of Case-Sensitive Soundexhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-example-of-case-sensitive-soundex.html

10 October 2012 how to use a SOUNDEX in a select and then listing all the variations based on case-sensitivity. Why? We have a database with data in it. For a particular column we have setup default values, let's use the example "Data Not Yet Available". Unfortunately...

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

Reminder on SSRS row separatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/reminder-on-ssrs-row-seperator.html

26 October 2011 article. If you are using SQL Server Reporting Services (in my case version 2008 R2), then yes, you won't need to use the database level solution and can follow these quick steps: Right-click the grey header of the tablix row (left-most grey part)...

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

Strip HTML in MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/strip-html-in-mysql.html

06 December 2011 a solution and getting it to work in my environment. What? Need to be able to omit HTML tags in certain fields of a mySQL database. Why? We are preparing to migrate old content to a new system. From a MediaWiki CMS to a SaaS called Service-Now. The...

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

Convert a delimited string to tablehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/convert-a-delimited-string-to-table.html

26 October 2012 This is a quick note to show you how to convert a given comma delimited string into a database table: Given: "Title,Forenames,Surname" Return: ID Value ------ ---------------- 1 Title 2 Forenames 3 Surname Note the below example omits the ID column and...

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

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

14 March 2013 "Date" is the last column and can be blank in the source. -- "Date" must default to current date if blank for the target database (cannot be NULL). -- PROBLEM: -- assuming date could be blank (has spaces) or in format DDMMYYYY (TRIM(Date) == "") ?...

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

Split a row into multiple rows based on a column valuehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/split-a-row-into-multiple-rows-based-on-a-column-value.html

23 August 2013 1999-02-25 003 1.00 1999-02-26 Some thing(s) to consider: User running the SQL query needs permission to read the master database. If run by a service account, ask a DBA to emulate the user for testing. the Items column may vary from 1 and 10+. Not sure...

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

Regular Expression Basic Usage Exampleshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/regular-expression-basic-usage-examples.html

28 October 2013 This expression matches both 'N' and 'ñ' in the following string: El Niño Source(s): Using Regular Expressions With Oracle Database

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

Generate a Timesheet in MySQL https://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/generate-a-timesheet-in-mysql.html

05 December 2013 This article is to remind me how to create a blank weekly timesheet which reads the duration of events from a database and auto-completes your timesheet. Why? I'm being tasked to work with EPM (Microsoft Enterprise Project Management) more and more....

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

Export Joomla Users scripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/export-joomla-users-script.html

28 February 2014 in MD5. All I want is a quick bit of code to get all the users out of a Joomla CMS. How? I could just type a query on the database and get the same result, but this script was more fun. Simply create a text file with the following code and upload it to...

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

SSRS: Performance Improvements: SELECT TOPhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-performance-improvements-select-top.html

07 March 2014 (amongst others) was that the report ran in less than a few seconds. Analyzing the report through the ReportServer databases (internal auditing) only showed how long the SQL query would take to recover the data and present it in a report, which would...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• 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 to parse or extract values from a string containing XML code. Why? I'm working with a system which stores XML strings in a database and rather than a separate file, it stores these in a row. How? Assuming the following data exists in the column...

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

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

12 August 2014 XET export and you should get something like: 5826|England Almost! If the code and it's short name/full name exist in the database, this works accordingly. If however, for some reason the code does not exist the code lookup will fail: -- If CODE=0000...

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