Connection Strings for SQL Serverhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sql-server/connection-strings-for-sql-server.html

05 January 2011 Connectors from dev.MySQL.com MySQL Connector/Net Type: .NET Framework Class Library Usage: MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnection Manufacturer: MySQL Standard Server=myServerAddress;Database=myDataBase;Uid=myUsername;Pwd=myPassword; Default port is...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server
• Language: *

Accessing a MySQL Database with Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/accessing-a-mysql-database-with-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

05 January 2011 I tried the SQL Server Management Studio solution to connect to a MySQL database then lost my way wondering what was I trying to achieve? I've written this article because this is how I connected to a MySQL database from within the Business Intelligence...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• 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 So this is a quick article on how to install the mySQL add-on for Oracle SQL Developer v3.0.04. Why? I've used various mySQL administration tools to manage mySQL databases over the years, all freeware until someone expresses an interest in using it and...

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• 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...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• 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 to: MySQL Database v5.0.45 MySQL Workbench v6.0.8.11354 build 833 What? This is a quick article on how to get around the problem of backing up your MySQL database when attempting to "Data Export" using MySQL Workbench. This is not regarding the...

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

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...

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

UTF8 Unicode PHP MySQL for International Charactershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/utf8-unicode-php-mysql-for-international-characters.html

22 October 2010 articles were displaying the correct characters for that language set. I needed to make my extension read data from a MySQL database and display the caracters as intended with UTF8. I tried enough extensions and forum solutions, and although these...

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

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

09 March 2011 "chr(\$1)", $term); $term = preg_replace("/\{COMMA\}/", ",", $term); $out[] = $term; } return $out; } # prepare for MySQL regular expressions function search_escape_rlike($string){ return preg_replace("/([.\[\]*^\$])/", '\\\$1', $string); } # function...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• 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 more than my search engine skills do. My Setup Windows XP Workstation...needs to open... Excel 2007 SP2...with ODBC to... MySQL v5+...hosting database... ActivityLog...contains activity, staffID, resourceID, start time, end time... Report...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• 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...

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

Foreign Characters create symbols in PHP and MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/foreign-characters-create-symbols-in-php-and-mysql.html

25 January 2016 to: PHP 5.4 MySQL 5.1.4 Databases initially setup with collation 'latin1_swedish_ci' What Another article trying to help people display foreign characters on their website without the funny question marks in diamond symbols and how I solved it in my...

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

URL Alias uniqueness with PHP & MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/url-alias-uniqueness-with-php-mysql.html

06 May 2019 but I want to block any character that isn't a letter, a number or an underscore. How? Suppose the following exists as a MySQL database table called my_table_name: What we have: /----------|-------------------|----------------------\ | id | name |...

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

MySQL: Count occurrences of words in a columnhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-count-occurrences-of-words-in-a-column.html

12 March 2020 This is an article to document how to output the most frequently used words in a MySQL database column. How? Note this only applies to MySQL. So the following query will return a count of each word in your database column by order of most used first...

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

Database Error: Unable to connect to the database: Could not connect to MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/database-error-unable-to-connect-to-the-database-could-not-connect-to-mysql.html

25 September 2009 website (using the default Joomla welcome template with NO modifications whatsoever) I start to get the "cannot connect to MYSQL." I contacted my webhost, and the problem is the number of MYSQL database queries. It goes up to about 200,000 in the first...

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

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 are not instructions to create some table I'll never use again unlike the rest of the solutions I found on the web). In MySQL, I only know how to do this with a UNION ALL clause. Scenario: I have a Joomla module which should take the keywords from a...

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

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

27 November 2012 ORDER BY acyear.StartDate DESC LIMIT 0,1 ) ORDER BY calendar.weekNumber Same Query but without using % (avoids MySQL Error 1065: Works within PHP scripts) SELECT calendar.WeekNumber AS AcademicWeek, CONCAT( DAYOFMONTH(calendar.StartDate), '-',...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• 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 memory aids for me so that I don't have to keep looking them up: MySQL T-SQL Strings String Replace REPLACE(haystack,needle,replacement) REPLACE(haystack,needle,replacement) String Position INSTR(haystack, needle) LOCATE(needle, haystack [, offset])...

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

Export/Import Database using MySQL Workbenchhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/export-import-database-using-mysql-workbench.html

05 February 2013 article isn't unique as there are other tutorials out there. This is meant to detail a process to export a database using MySQL Workbench and then to import it into another database. Why? If you're confined to use this product then this is how to do it....

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

Search and Replace in a MySQL Databasehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/search-and-replace-in-a-mysql-database.html

17 March 2010 it like that? My justification is that the job has to be done no matter what. If you've ever sat there with phpMyAdmin or a MySQL Administration Tool (like Navicat or SQLYog), and still there at night editing each field so that it displays correctly......

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

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

27 September 2010 title of this article implies something rather odd and upcoming considering that Sun Microsystems bought MySQL and Oracle bought Sun. But in fact, this is just a quick list of some regular commands in MySQL that I need in Oracle: Objective MySQL Oracle...

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