Create Read-Only Database User in SQL Serverhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/create-read-only-database-user-in-sql-server.html

09 November 2010 next to public and db_datareader. Confirm by clicking OK. You should get something like the following: Database-level role names from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189121(SQL.100).aspx db_accessadmin Members of the db_accessadmin fixed...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Databases
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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 site and its design is property of SomeoneElse.com Obviously the two above tables are very similar with different column names. I also don't want the data to produce double the number of columns. My Solution SELECT title, intro FROM ( SELECT `title`,...

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

Joes FREE Website Thumbnailer (JWT)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-free-website-thumbnailer.html?catid=40

28 June 2011 long as the page loads in a browser of yours (it will look at it like MS Windows Internet Explorer) it should be ok. Output names for the thumbnails follow the same restrictions as the MS Windows filesystem (so no colons, back/forward slashes, etc). If...

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• Category: Product Documentation
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Win32 Constantshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/win32-constants.html

05 July 2011 = 1 ;// displayed under a folder (relative) Const SHGDN_INCLUDE_NONFILESYS = $2000 ;// If Not set display names For shell name space items that are Not in the file system will fail. Const SHGDN_FORADDRESSBARConst = $4000 ;// For displaying in the...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AutoHotkey
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Excel PivotTable Filter List Orderinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-pivottable-filter-list-ordering.html

05 September 2011 and select "Move to Report Filter") Advanced Sorting So the above works which is great but what if you have a list of month names? January comes before February but not alphabetically, so let's do this as an example: Move the field from "Report Filter"...

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

Joes Network Transmission Detector (JTD)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-network-transmission-detector-jtd.html?catid=40

29 September 2011 background: In Development Read data packets without causing network traffic (tried tcpdump, pcap) IP and resolved host names on double-click without causing network traffic (tried netstat. NTS: try this again with dll calling) Program used to open port...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
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T-SQL Record Separatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-record-separator.html

11 October 2011 16/10/2011 A009 08:00 17:00 Separator Marker */ As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, I am comparing on Day names. The above query generates a last column which is either empty or says "Separator Marker". Based on the CTE above, I now need to...

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

Migrate JComments from Joomla 1.5.x to Joomla 2.5.xhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrate-jcomments-from-joomla-15x-to-joomla-25x.html

07 June 2012 website (at time of print: Jcomments v2.3.0 on Joomla v2.5.4) Copy the below script to a text file Change the database names to match your setup Change the table name prefixes to match your setup Run the modified SQL script against your database. Note:...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
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Search a database for a value and count matching rowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/search-a-database-for-a-value-and-count-matching-rows.html

05 November 2012 to use DECLARE @SqlToExecute varchar(max), @TableToProcess varchar(max); -- Populate Cursor1 (Used to hold valid table names) DECLARE Cursor1 CURSOR FOR SELECT TABLE_CATALOG + '.' + TABLE_SCHEMA + '.' + TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE...

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

Compare two databases using T-SQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/compare-two-databases-using-t-sql.html

24 September 2013 my laziness (replace [myDB1] with name of database 1 and [myDB2] with name of database 2): -- Joins on table and column names, lists diffences if any SELECT t1.TABLE_CATALOG AS [DB1_Name], t2.TABLE_CATALOG AS [DB2_Name], CASE WHEN t1.TABLE_NAME IS NULL...

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

Client Services: Website Development Agreementhttps://www.joellipman.com/static-items/client-services-website-development-agreement.html

15 November 2013 adjust, suggest and query against this. Here is an outline agreement between joellipman.com and you: Once I have the domain names, I will configure my server to receive requests for those domains (along with webspace and emails). Please wait up to 3...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Static Items
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T-SQL: Parse an XML valuehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-parse-an-xml-value.html

27 March 2014 to return unknown nodes from XML column - Event_XML SELECT Event_XML.query('//* ') FROM [dbo].[XML_EVENTS] Parent/Child Node Names -- to get name of parent node -- returns STAFF SELECT ( SELECT c.value('local-name(.)', 'nvarchar(50)') FROM...

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

Include a carriage return in a column headinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sql-server/include-a-carriage-return-in-a-column-heading.html

07 July 2014 and often return it as "AcademicWeek"). Other Search(es) Format a column alias with new line Using carriage return in column names New line Character in column alias

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server
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Excel: convert degrees minutes seconds to decimalhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-convert-degrees-minutes-seconds-to-decimal.html

06 November 2014 A quick article on how to get the value of 40°4′20″N 116°35′51″E into 40.079857, 116.603112. How? Let's pretend all the names are in column A, in Column B I have the coordinates that I want to convert: A B -------------------------------------...

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

Convert foreign characters to English alphabethttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/convert-foreign-characters-to-english-alphabet.html

13 June 2016 equivalent. Why? A content management system (CMS) that I'm working on has just gone international and started including the names of places in other countries. This is nice but its search engine doesn't work properly as it thinks "riviere" is different...

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

Upload file to Google Drive with PHP/cURL and API REST v3 (without Client Library)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/upload-file-to-google-drive-with-php-curl-and-api-rest-v3-without-library-install.html

29 October 2018 client library) and is a function sending two requests, the second is the appropriate multipart function which uploads and names the file in a single request, and the third is a 'nice-to-have' upload to the specified folder. Method #1: two requests 1....

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

Autohotkey - Chrome Profiles in Alphabetical Orderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-chrome-profiles-in-alphabetical-order.html

07 January 2020 := A_LoopFileLongPath "\Preferences" ; Get the preferences file from the profile FileRead, OutputContent, %PreferenceFile% NameStart := InStr(OutputContent, """name"":""")+8 NameEnd := InStr(OutputContent, """", false, NameStart+1) NameLength := NameEnd...

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

Zoho Deluge: Search Records with Special Characters (COQL)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-search-records-with-special-characters-coql.html

28 August 2020 the existing records by company name. The issue is that if you use zoho.crm.searchRecords() this will work fine for company names without special characters such as the ampersand or parentheses. But what if amongst your records you may want to find:...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
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Zoho Deluge: Convert Map to HTML Table without a FOR loophttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-convert-map-to-html-table-without-a-for-loop.html

11 January 2021 Person 2 How? This is a bit of a dirty solution and as long as "id" is not your first column (because "id" can be found in names like "David") it will work. Assume a Map specified in deluge: l_Data = List(); m_Data = Map();...

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• Category: Zoho
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Zoho CRM: Update a custom field in line items / product details using REST API v2.1https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-update-a-custom-field-in-line-items-product-details.html

17 May 2021 the "Product_Details" key but to the respective module line item API name as per the following screenshot: Following the API names in this example, the Deluge code to send would be something like the following instead (reminder: instead of...

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