ZohoRecruit: Create Linking Table for Candidates and Associated Job Openingshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohorecruit-create-linking-table-for-candidates-and-associated-job-openings.html

08 February 2023 Why? We're creating a custom module where our client wants to query Zoho Recruit via the API but couldn't find a database table to determine who has been associated to what job. In Zoho Recruit reports (Analytics), you can include the "Associate" module...

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

K2 Items disappearhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/k2-items-disappear.html

27 August 2010 these pages and the error is at a foreach() line where it's pulling data from the database. I asked to see the jos_k2_items table and it returned the following error: #145 - Table './jos_k2_items' is marked as crashed and should be repaired The Quick...

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

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 What? This is a quick article on how to split a single row into multipe rows based on the value of a column in the same table. Why? I have a table that has all the days of sickness of employees. This table contains, which employee, on what date, and for...

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

Zoho Creator: Render to PDF with margins and page numbershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-render-to-pdf-with-margins-and-page-numbers.html

07 May 2024 or print format. I have another article for a different client who wants a pretty advanced HTML template (well it's a HTML table with rowspans and the borders need to merge cells). But here we're simply going to use ZohoCreator and its PDF rendering...

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

Zoho People: Get Performance Records over APIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-people-get-performance-records-over-api.html

18 September 2025 This should give you all the fields that will be pulled from "Goals" and some records with data. Create the Zoho Analytics table Create a blank Excel file / spreadsheet / csv Copy the names of fields you want to store (I'm taking all of it), and paste...

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

MySQL Data Type Reference Tablehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-data-type-reference-table.html

15 February 2010 A data type reference table. If you're designing a database then you don't need me to tell you what this is. My personal opinion is to always try to use the minimal type and length of the value required. For example, a comment of 500 words should only...

• 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: *

T-SQL Record Separatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-record-separator.html

11 October 2011 a column that's different. So for example, I have data like the following: SELECT DATENAME(dw, StartDate) AS 'Day' FROM Timetable ORDER BY StartDate ASC, AnotherOrderByCol ASC, AndAnotherOrderByCol ASC -- Yields /* Day ---------------- Monday Monday...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• 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 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 | url_alias |...

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

ZohoAnalytics & ZohoBooks: Custom Related List from Analyticshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohoanalytics-zohobooks-custom-related-list-from-analytics.html

09 July 2024 A quick article to document 2 features in deluge code: a custom related list in ZohoBooks, and a reminder on how to read a table from ZohoAnalytics. Why? My use-case here is that we have a client who uses their purchase orders and sales orders as part...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• 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...

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

Drop If Object Existshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/drop-if-object-exists.html

03 August 2012 IF OBJECT_ID ( '[Common].[ufn_MyFunction]', 'FN' ) IS NOT NULL DROP FUNCTION [Common].[ufn_MyFunction]; GO -- drop a user table if it exists IF OBJECT_ID ( '[dbo].[myUserTable]', 'U' ) IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE [dbo].[myUserTable]; GO Types for sys.objects...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• 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 installation wizard. Data Migration using SQL files: Import Categories: export SQL file and amend the insert(s) into the new table `#_categories` where `id` > 7 Add column in #_content just before note called `xreference` VARCHAR(50) allows NULL. Import...

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

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 standard SQL we can combine the contents of two tables with a CROSS JOIN, (BTW these 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...

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

Stored Procedure to List Distinct Values and Countshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/stored-procedure-to-list-distinct-values-and-counts.html

26 October 2012 with collation to make it case-sensitive and/or accent-sensitive but using this stored procedure means I only specify the table and then the columns. How? IF OBJECT_ID('usp_ListDistinctValuesAndCounts', 'P') IS NOT NULL DROP PROCEDURE...

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

Country Lookup by IP address CSVhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/country-lookup-by-ip-address.html

17 March 2013 so that you could have your own country lookup script. The Download Should contain the following: create_countriesipranges_table.sql: SQL to create a pre-populated table into a MySQL database. iana_ipv4_address_space_registry.csv: comma separated values...

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

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

24 September 2013 lists the different datatypes, is_nullable, maxlength and collations side-by-side: -- all columns side by side SELECT t1.TABLE_CATALOG AS [DB1_Name], t2.TABLE_CATALOG AS [DB2_Name], t1.TABLE_NAME AS [DB1_Table], t2.TABLE_NAME AS [DB2_Table],...

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

Zoho Creator: Retrieve record with case-insensitive queryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-retrieve-record-with-case-insensitive.html

21 November 2019 here to remind me how to make the retrieval of a record case-insensitive. Why? Consider that I have the following creator table: Product_Name Product_SKU -------------- ------------- MyProduct1 TEST01 Myproduct2 TEST02 myproduct3 TEST03 I'm trying to...

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

Creating a Top 10 chart with less codehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/creating-a-top-10-chart-with-less-code.html

18 February 2010 out how I could do it. This is when using a MySQL query within a PHP script. The process is used often to do a statistics table or top ten chart of your data (eg. movies, music, etc). My aim is to do the following: retrieve data from a table, count the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: *

Inserting incremental weeks in MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/inserting-incremental-weeks-in-mysql.html

15 April 2011 Situation: I have a silly database table (not mine) storing CMIS Facility week numbers and their starting dates. For those of you unfamiliar with this system, the reason week numbers are different to normal people's week numbers is because these are...

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