No rows returned in Oracle causes SP to failhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/no-rows-returned-in-oracle-causes-sp-to-fail.html

24 January 2012 (not a blank row either) as one of my reports uses a row counter to display a "No data found" message when no rows are returned. This does not affect the above problem as the stored procedure simply fails and discontinues processing the overall report....

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: en-GB

Returned a data type that is not validhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/returned-a-data-type-that-is-not-valid.html

06 January 2011 report processing. An error has occurred during report processing. The Group expression used in grouping 'table1_month' returned a data type that is not valid. My DataSet Query was as follows: SELECT CONCAT(MONTHNAME(t1.Date), ' ', YEAR(t1.Date)) Month,...

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

Regular Expressions in SQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/regular-expressions-in-sql.html

09 January 2014 '[^a-zA-Z0-9]') -- returns all rows where the student surname contains non-alphanumeric characters -- eg. O'Brien will be returned SELECT * FROM STUDENTS WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(S_SURNAME, '[^a-zA-Z0-9\'']') -- returns all rows where the student surname...

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

Returning Oracle Stored Procedure Resultset in SSRShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/returning-oracle-stored-procedure-resultset-in-ssrs.html

19 January 2012 ( p_STUDENT_ADNAME IN varchar2, l_CURSOR OUT sys_refcursor ) IS BEGIN -- going to declare variables that are to be returned in SSRS but not -- mentioned in the above OUT variables: DECLARE p_STUDENT_REF number(8); p_STUDENT_DETAILS varchar2(255); --...

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

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

07 March 2014 Studio (BIDS / VS2008), the IDE would crash and close without warnings or notifications. We found that if the query only returned 1000 rows, it completed and displayed in just under 1 minute. If limited to 500 rows, it would complete in just under 40...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• 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 AND wikimedia_page.page_is_redirect=0 -- yields: let's call it MyTable1: Query time: 0.187s. 880 rows returned. PageID PageTitle PageContent ---------------- ------------------ --------------------- 1144 7911_and_7912_t... ==Description==... -- to get a...

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

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

05 January 2011 Server=myServerAddress;Database=myDataBase;Uid=myUsername;Pwd=myPassword; CharSet=UTF8; Note that resultsets still are returned in the character set of the data returned. Specifying shared memory name Use this one to specify the shared memory object...

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

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 and Note in the details (will appear in each cell per day). Grouping by weeks: Now we finish with the report wizard and returned to the designer. Right-click on the "[Order]" cell and select "Add Group" then click on "Parent Group..." as shown. Week...

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

The ReportServer Databasehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/the-reportserver-database.html

08 August 2011 error is recorded ByteCount bigint NOT NULL Size of rendered reports in bytes. RowCount bigint NOT NULL Number of rows returned from queries. Conversions Needed: I want to convert a start and end date to a single time value (hours minutes seconds...

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

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

02 September 2011 with Team Foundation Server 2010. The database with our stored procedure is 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:...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• 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 Error: Data conversion failed while converting column "This_Date" (3833) to column "This_Date" (3932). The conversion returned status value 2 and status text "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.". Error: SSIS Error Code...

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

Registered Users Cannot Login - Super Users Canhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/registered-users-cannot-login-super-users-can.html

26 February 2014 FROM #__assets WHERE parent_id=0 -- where #_ is the Database Tables Prefix value There can be only one: If the number returned is 1 then this article is not addressing your issue. This is a red herring. If the number returned is greater than 1 then run...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• 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 a singleton (or empty sequence), found operand of type 'xdt:untypedAtomic *' This is because more than one record was returned so you need to surround with brackets and append a [1] as per the above example. Retrieving nodes -- to get all below nodes...

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

Zoho CRM & Zoho Creator: Query returns some fields missing other data on the recordhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-zoho-creator-query-returns-some-fields-missing-other-data-on-the-record.html

26 July 2021 list in Zoho CRM with a view on to related records in Zoho Creator. For some reason, only some random fields were being returned, all pretty much useless to me. Well the "for some reason" turned out to be because my detail view on the report was...

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

ZohoCRM Webhook: Create ZohoInventory Records from an eBay orderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-webhook-create-zohoinventory-records-from-an-ebay-order.html

27 April 2023 Lipman) - Enhanced debug messages as function not auto-triggering on receipt of Order - Resolved: SO ID was not being returned when created. - Forced re-upload of photo for item on any modification Date Modified: 2023-03-20 (Joel Lipman) - Check if...

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

Upgrading Joomla CMS version 3.x to Joomla CMS 5.xhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/upgrading-joomla-cms-version-3-x-to-joomla-cms-5-x.html

04 February 2025 general information desk account is 333), remove other super admins (optional) I also noted the previous admin's ID and returned their super admin status. Sorted by group_id desc and changed 8 to 2. SELECT m.`user_id`, m.`group_id`, u.`username`,...

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

Zoho Deluge: Nested Catch Statementshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-nested-catch-statements.html

04 February 2025 Cx is that they need documents converted from HTML to PDF — as in we send it a bit of code in HTML and we want a PDF file returned. I have severaly instances of an API which accepts HTML and returns a PDF file. Nothing complex but issues with one of the...

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

Installing phpBB3 for Joomla with a RocketTheme templatehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/installing-phpbb3-for-joomla-with-a-rockettheme-template.html

28 September 2009 page with the affinity template finally worked!!! Chuffed to bits as you might imagine but clicking on any other link returned an error something along the lines of "template tpl load file styles prosilver login body does not exist empty". I backed up...

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

This file contains HTML or script code that may be erroneously interpreted by a web browserhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/html/this-file-contains-html-or-script-code-that-may-be-erroneously-interpreted-by-a-web-browser.html

08 October 2009 'xls', 'mpp', 'pdf', 'zip', 'flv', 'swf'); Online forums are saying this is it, but my system still didn't allow them and returned the above error... Secondly: Edit your /includes/specials/SpecialUpload.php file and add the following line shortly after...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Hypertext Markup Language
• Language: en-GB

Remove write-protect from USB pen in Windowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/remove-write-protect-from-pen-in-windows.html

13 April 2010 found a utility that actually works on my pen!!! It said “repaired USB pen” and when I go to check the space, my 30Gb has returned!!! It’s called Urescue and it’s become my favourite program (despite the fact that I want to need to use it as little as...

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