Copy a table with structure and data into a temporary tablehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/copy-a-table-with-structure-and-data-into-a-temporary-table.html

03 August 2012 varchar(50); DECLARE @TableDeclaration nvarchar(4000); DECLARE @SqlToExecute nvarchar(4000); -- Set variable default values SET @TableName = SUBSTRING(@SchemaTableName, CHARINDEX('.', @SchemaTableName)+1, LEN(@SchemaTableName)); SET @SqlToExecute = '';...

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

Inline Labels in Form Fields using Javascripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/js/inline-labels-in-form-fields-using-javascript.html

21 August 2012 is still black. Additional Note that instead of just saying if this value equals "Name:" I've added some code to trim the values. If the user types two spaces, then we want the field to understand this as "no one entered anything", treat it as empty....

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

Vertically align an asterisk on a linehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/vertically-align-an-asterisk-on-a-line.html

02 September 2012 So I have an unordered list of values (*, 1, 2, 3...) and for styling reasons I want the asterisk to be the same size as the numbers but not overlap any list item beneath it. By increasing the size of the asterisk, this often increases the line-height...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Cascading Stylesheets
• Language: *

Search a database for a string (MySQL, T-SQL)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/search-a-database-for-a-string-mysql-t-sql.html

08 October 2012 = @CNT_VALUE; #SELECT COUNTER; IF COUNTER>0 THEN # Inserting required results from search to table INSERT INTO temp_details VALUES(db,tbl,clmn); END IF; IF done=1 THEN LEAVE table_loop; END IF; END LOOP; CLOSE table_cur; #Finally Show Results SELECT...

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

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 you want to match on (eg. Customer_ID) ** ** - Column: the column name which will contain this value. ** ** ** ** Return Values : Table of three columns: ** ** - myValue: value specified in parameter 1 (matched in database to search) ** ** - myTable:...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Databases
• 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 this with more information about the failure. All this blab actually means is that there is a chance one of your date values is BLANK, NULL or contains a non-numerical value in a number such as COMMA (,) and therefore the parsing (to extract year for...

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

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

17 March 2013 SQL to create a pre-populated table into a MySQL database. iana_ipv4_address_space_registry.csv: comma separated values list of all countries, regions and their respective IP ranges. ip_lookup.php: to use the database License.txt: Released under GNU/GPL...

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

MS Excel - Sort pivottable column headings by datehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/sort-pivottable-column-headings-by-date.html

12 April 2013 ALL DATA in the spreadsheet and reconfiguring which fields go in "Report Filter", "Column Labels", "Row Labels" and sum "Values". But because the next time this happens, I would have to repeat this, I would advise the above steps to remove parentheses.

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

SSIS Script: convert UPPERCASE to Mixed-Case using TitleCasehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-script-convert-uppercase-to-mixed-case-using-titlecase.html

04 October 2013 applied: eg. "Andrew Lloyd-Webber", "Marketing Manager (Acting)", "Lipman***Test" or "R&D". As well as alphanumeric values such as "Flat 4B", "Suite 4899A", "123A Myhouse". Example #2: Using as a Custom Script Component The above will work as a SSIS...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Integration Services
• 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 This took me a while to find so I've posted an article below detailing how to parse or extract values from a string containing XML code. Why? I'm working with a system which stores XML strings in a database and rather than a separate file, it stores...

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

Hide a Drive per User in Windows 7https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/hide-a-drive-per-user-in-windows-7.html

28 March 2014 number from the list below you want to set as restricted, and click on OK. -- Restrict multiple drives by adding the values together -- For Example: To Restrict B & C, enter 6 decimal -- " " E & G, enter 80 decimal or 50 hexadecimal Drive Letter Decimal...

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

SSIS Multiple Lookups in onehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-multiple-lookups-in-one.html

05 August 2014 alternative to multiple lookups in SSIS. For any SSIS developer trying to create packages that need to decode a number of values into their full name/description (eg. "M" to "Male", "Prof" to "Professor"). Why? Our extract phase in the SSIS package...

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

SITS: Export field code and namehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/sits-export-field-code-and-name.html

12 August 2014 have: export format set to get lookup value -- &GCOD_NAME.COD.SRS England -- What I want: export format to get multiple values -- &G[COD.SRS:•|•] 5826|England How? You can see it in the code above but I'll give the run through using the country of...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Extensible Markup Language
• Language: *

Add attribute xsl:nil=true on empty elements using XSLThttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/xslt/add-attribute-xsl-nil-true-on-empty-elements-using-xslt.html

18 August 2014 // -- What I want: Why? Outputting from SITS:Vision to our staging environment, the application would only output blank values using single tags so we had to find a place to introduce it. On strings this has little worth, but on dates which could be...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: XML Stylesheet Language Transformations
• Language: *

Joes Search Module (JSM)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-search-module-jsm.html?catid=40

09 March 2015 (or "JSM"). Other Areas: One of the parameters is entitled "Search Area". This is the component to search so other valid values are: categories contacts newsfeeds weblinks To determine yours, do a standard search on your website and check the search...

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

Warning: Save failed. Another menu item has the same aliashttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/warning-save-failed-another-menu-item-has-the-same-alias.html

13 March 2015 alias (eg. for "about" give it the alias "about_new") Login to your database and browse to the #__menu table Search for any values in the `alias` column that match the term (eg. for "about" do SELECT * FROM #__menu WHERE alias LIKE '%about%' where #_ is...

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

Joes Revolver Map (JRM) Downloadshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-revolver-map-jrm-downloads.html?catid=92

07 September 2015 works... - Trimmed any spaces from posted data and html code. - Used revolvermaps.com selection of "width x height" values. - Date Uploaded: Fri, 30th Jul 2010 1.1- Separated all parameters to be configured in the Joomla admin panel - Language file...

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

Migrating from Joomla 2.5.x to 3.4.xhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-2-5-x-to-3-4-x.html

12 September 2015 a Quick string replacements These are merely for reference for myself. Their purpose are for quick tweaks to the database values after a migration. -- Replace stringtofind with the string you want to find -- Replace stringtoreplace with the string you...

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

Pure JS - Display Time Elapsed & Remaininghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/js/pure-js-display-time-elapsed-remaining.html

30 October 2018 remaining and seconds elapsed in PHP first then passing these as two variables to the below code but you could get your values from anywhere: On page load, the seconds remaining and elapsed are specified JS then takes over and runs the time var...

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

Zoho Deluge - Some Useful Regular Expressionshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-some-useful-regular-expressions.html

31 May 2019 A more comprehensive post on some other regex (regular expressions) to format values in Zoho. How? The following will remove any non-digits: v_MyString = "Hello World 123"; v_MyFormattedString = v_MyString.replaceAll("[^0-9]",""); // yields 123 The...

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