Change the login link in MediaWikihttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/mediawiki/change-the-login-link-in-mediawiki.html

22 September 2010 usual I have searched the WWW but I obviously don't how to use Google because I couldn't find an answer. My situation is this: We have an internal wiki knowledge base using MediaWiki version 1.14. Some articles are available for public, some are...

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

Passwords: Did-you-knowhttps://www.joellipman.com/hardware/passwords-did-you-know.html

15 November 2010 passwords > Show All. This includes a feature to search through your saved password information as well... You can opt to have these protected by a 'Master Password' but by default and without this, Firefox will display them all at a click of a button....

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

Parameters not being used in report processinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/parameters-not-being-used-in-report-processing.html

07 January 2011 Given a Campus as a text value, the SQL query was ignoring this completely Hardcoding the scalar local variables worked I have two parameters that will be submitted (GivenDate and GivenCampus). Consider the following script: --...

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

SQL Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/sql-calendar-in-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

14 January 2011 + '/01/2009 01:30:00 PM', Note = 'Event 6' ) SELECT -- Number the records based on the date, if multiple records have -- the same date then they will be numbered the same. Used in -- calculation to determine row record is to display on. [Order] =...

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

MySQL: Find records in one table that are not in another.https://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-find-records-in-one-table-that-are-not-in-another.html

25 February 2011 against this database because it involves linking a lot of tables and outputting... just articles and their titles. I have another table holding the audit trail of content approvers on the system. Approvers can e-sign an article (approving it) by...

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

PHP & MySQL Search Enginehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/php-a-mysql-search-engine.html

09 March 2011 you hate sites that do not have a search feature? I do. I think it defeats the purpose of cramming information endlessly in cyberspace. So we want to give a search engine to our users. This sounds really simple, we could try: $search_term_esc =...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: en-GB

Newbies guide to be the local computer guyhttps://www.joellipman.com/hardware/newbies-guide-to-be-the-local-computer-guy.html

28 April 2011 produce. Even with most services this nearly always guarantees a happy customer. "So this is all I could fix in the time I have, all your issues have been dealt with and I also did this..." "So this is what I've quickly put together for demo purposes."

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

What's the problem? Amusing computer issueshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/whats-the-problem-amusing-computer-reports.html

28 April 2011 only see the users screen. Three Webdevelopers phone in to say their computers can't view a website properly "Can someone have a look at our computers because we recently received the new corporate template for our website and it's not displaying...

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

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 We have a report in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 (SSRS) reading from an Oracle 10g database which works great and lists all the details on a specific student. An additional request is that there appears a link that will run a stored procedure...

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

Joes DNS Correction (JDC)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-dns-correction2.html?catid=40

25 November 2011 which is to open a command prompt and to type "ipconfig /flushdns" then "ipconfig /registerdns" and the connections would have been restored. As I love automation and reducing processes to single-click fixes, I made this teeny tiny program to run the...

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

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

16 January 2012 my MySQL and T-SQL stored procedures work slightly differently and are easier to pull off. After much umming and aah-ing, I have written this article as a note for me to demo a working stored procedure and how to use cursors. I'm told I need to use this...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• 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 2012) The performance of the previous version of this query was pretty abysmal and worse if you want to list users who have no associated activities (outer join but all-in-one query). The DBA responsible for the system asked me to look at ways of...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• 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 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 proposed stupid extensive solutions when all you need is one command-line. Why? Working with programming languages, I often...

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

Print Directory Contents to a Filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/print-directory-contents-to-a-file.html

19 July 2012 This file will be stored in the folder that you asked to list. Instead of C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe, I could have used %Comspec% or even %windir%\system32\cmd.exe but with some group policies, you will get an "access denied" message. If you don't have...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: *

Generate Academic Calendar using MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/generate-academic-calendar-using-mysql.html

27 November 2012 We have a specific timetabling system for academic institutions and all our staff/students follow academic week numbers as opposed to calendar week numbers. Why? The aim of this article is to quickly generate a calendar for a full academic year for...

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

Upgrading a Joomla 1.5 module to Joomla 2.5https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/upgrade-a-joomla-1-5-module-to-joomla-1-6.html

11 February 2011 So this is a note to myself so that I have a checklist and can quickly update any extensions designed for Joomla 1.5.x and make these compatible with Joomla 2.5.x websites. In the past, I have only ever changed the words to but for more stability, there...

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

JDatabase: using the Joomla database with exampleshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/jdatabase-using-the-joomla-database.html

27 January 2013 the Joomla classes but this is just a quick note for myself as a reference sheet. Plus the official documentation don't have enough examples in my view. Source: http://docs.joomla.org/ for v1.5.x and for v2.5.x This article applies to Joomla 1.5.x,...

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

Quickly update all content in mySQL database replacing a stringhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/quickly-update-all-content-replacing-a-string.html

03 February 2013 with another in all your joomla articles without modifying other data such as modified date and author. Why? I used to have a third-party plugin that would replace my HTML tags with . Not I want to switch these back. How? For demo purposes, I'm...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• 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 (LTRIM(ContributionValue) == "") ? "0.0000" : TRIM(REPLACE(ContributionValue,",","")) My Most Frequent Fix: The data files I have to work with are rarely consistent. On some rows the date column will have a string of 8 characters long in the format...

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

SSIS Skip Rows in Excel Source filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-skip-rows-in-excel-source-file.html

04 April 2013 specify column datatypes. You don't get that with Excel but you can still control the data range. How? My example is that I have an excel sheet where the first 10 rows are descriptions to the column, and then I have 38 columns ("A" to "AL"): In the data...

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