Fun with DllCall in AutoHotkeyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/fun-with-dllcall-in-autohotkey.html

27 September 2011 Library (DLL) along with an inputbox for convenience: InputBox, FunctionToDo, DLL File, Enter the name of the DLL file you want to (suffix with .dll):,,500,120,,,,,shell32.dll If not ErrorLevel { ThisData:=PE_FunctionExports( FunctionToDo ) IfExist,...

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

Stop Excel Row Height Self-Adjust on Refreshhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/stop-excel-row-height-self-adjust-on-refresh.html

30 September 2011 convoluted and cramped when refreshing data and preferred the end result with this change. Note on "row height": We did not want the customer having to format the report after they've already gone through the hassle of clicking on the big fat refresh...

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

SSRS AlphaNumeric Parameter Validationhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-alphanumeric-validation.html

07 November 2011 If you ever want to check the parameters submitted with a report for alpha numeric characters (so it doesn't contain symbols, punctuations, etc) then you should do this at the database level, and then get the report to complete the check: The Plan User...

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

SSRS Dropdown parameter cannot be blank!https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-dropdown-to-allow-blank-values.html

14 December 2011 millisecond. The report has 4 parameters. Each parameter is a dropdown populated by a list of all available reports. Why? I want the report to be run with the 3rd and 4th parameter as OPTIONAL. When I leave the 3rd and 4th parameter untouched (=""), the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• 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 before the first comma. Consider the following, the first query is how MySQL interprets the query and the second is what I want it to do: SELECT value FROM my_table WHERE my_id IN ('1, 2, 3') SELECT value FROM my_table WHERE my_id IN ('1', '2', '3') The...

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

Basic Oracle Function Structurehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/basic-oracle-function-structure.html

15 January 2012 overcomplicate everything and have forgotten how it is to be new to Oracle. I need a function in it's simplest form and if I want to torture my successors, I'll complicate the function myself. How? Functions are supposed to return a single value, which...

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

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

19 January 2012 student_accounts WHERE student_accounts.student_username = p_STUDENT_ADNAME; -- opening cursor for the select query that I want to display in SSRS OPEN l_CURSOR FOR SELECT INITCAP(b.p_title) || ' ' || INITCAP(b.p_forenames) || ' ' || UPPER(b.p_surname)...

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

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 result set. Furthermore I am using this stored procedure in a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) environment and don't want to return any rows if there are no matches (not a blank row either) as one of my reports uses a row counter to display a "No...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/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 settings and leaves the factory settings that come with the JComments extension. Check all JComments settings are what you want using the Joomla Admin interface. If the article IDs match then the comments will also match. If however your article IDs...

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

Prefix Line Numbers in a Text Filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/prefix-line-numbers-to-a-text-file.html

18 July 2012 Working with programming languages, I often need to write the accompanying documentation. Within the documentation, I may want to refer to a line of code within a text file. I also find myself copying amounts of code into the same document and then...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MS-DOS
• Language: *

DataJumble - Shuffling characters in a data valuehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/data-shuffling-function.html

01 August 2012 but switches their order randomly, so I've renamed it DataJumble as opposed to my article on Data-Scrambling. Why? We want to scramble sensitive data that we send to suppliers for support or analysis. With inspiration from: "Obfuscating your SQL Server...

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

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 Hmm... I was writing a stored procedure that will scramble data given a table as a parameter. Because I only want to update a temporary table and not the original (source) table, I needed the following stored procedure (or part of). What? This will copy...

• 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 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. this.value.split(' ').join('') -- split this...

• 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: *

Slideshow div layer through a windowhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/mootools/slideshow-div-layer-through-a-window.html

11 September 2012 What? This article is a quick note to myself on the idea of a slideshow with the MooTools javascript framework. Basically, I want to create a div layer that I can see through (like a window with no glass) and for all the flashy stuff, to only appear...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MooTools Framework
• 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 with X %X--- will give data ending with X %X%--- will give data containig X @GenerateSQLOnly -- Provide 1 if you only want to generate the SQL statements without seraching the database. By default it is 0 and it will search. Samples : 1. To search data...

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

T-SQL example of Case-Sensitive Soundexhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-example-of-case-sensitive-soundex.html

10 October 2012 in our default values. Additional Note how this also picked up typos in the 4th value which is good as I didn't want to overcomplicate things using LEVENSHTEIN and DIFFERENCE: SOUNDEX('Data Not Yet Available') = SOUNDEX('Daat oNt EYt Avialable')

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

Licence GNU/GPLhttps://www.joellipman.com/static-items/licence-gnugpl.html

03 April 2009 to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things. To...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Static Items
• Language: *

Setup a copy of your Joomla websitehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/setup-a-copy-of-your-joomla-website.html

19 December 2012 are the ftp credentials. $log_path and $tmp_path should also be updated. $robots - set this to 'noindex, nofollow' (we don't want google to index our test site). Disable new user registration in the TEST version of the site (User Manager > Options)...

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

Quickly update all content in mySQL database replacing a stringhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/quickly-update-all-content-replacing-a-string.html

03 February 2013 data such as modified date and author. Why? I used to have a third-party plugin that would replace my HTML tags with . Not I want to switch these back. How? For demo purposes, I'm searching a column called introtext in a database table called...

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