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Fun with DllCall in AutoHotkey
AutoHotkey

Fun with DllCall in AutoHotkey

Ok so there are more fun things to do out there. If you're the type of AutoHotkey programmer that doesn't like having to use the command prompt to write to an extra text file which your program has to read, then this is for you. DllCall will usually run contained in the program and can be hidden from the end-user. The...

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SSRS External Images don't display
SQL Server Reporting Services

SSRS External Images don't display

The Situation We want some photos taken from another website of ours to display in our report. These are not stored locally on the Reporting Server because other services use these photos on our Intranet and we only want one location to upload the photos. These images are provided via a website address (http) or networ...

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Excel PivotTable Filter List Ordering
Excel

Excel PivotTable Filter List Ordering

So I googled this for a while and there are a lot of solutions out there, none of which applied to what we meant and lots of people in the same boat. The Situation We have an Excel report which summarizes for our guys at the top, all the activities and time spent by staff. There are several filters available on the rep...

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SSRS Parameters in Oracle Stored Procedure
SQL Server Reporting Services

SSRS Parameters in Oracle Stored Procedure

I'm storing a note here because it took a while to figure out and googling other solutions did not answer our questions but did lead us to a workaround. So this is regarding an error when trying to add parameters to a Stored Procedure of an Oracle database from within Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. The Error...

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MySQL parameters in Excel 2007 PivotTables
MySQL

MySQL parameters in Excel 2007 PivotTables

Hopefully the title doesn't put you off but after much Googling and Bing-ing, I still couldn't figure out how to do this. Hopefully this article will help you more than my search engine skills do. My Setup Windows XP Workstation ...needs to open... Excel 2007 SP2 ...with ODBC to... MySQL v5+ ...hosting database... Acti...

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Importing Joomla articles to WordPress posts
Wordpress

Importing Joomla articles to WordPress posts

Migrating the articles: Change database name my_joomla_db to your joomla database and my_wordpress_db to your Wordpress database Change http://demo.joellipman.com/wordpress/ to the full URL of your WordPress site. If post_type is to be post then append with ?p= otherwise use ?page_id=. Articles: ------ MIGRATING JOOMLA...

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The ReportServer Database
Databases

The ReportServer Database

Amazing, I have just spent all morning on Microsoft websites to determine what number is the TimeDataRetrieval column displaying. Thank you I know it's an INT. There is just a serious lack of documentation as to what this database is and how it populates its data. View: ExecutionLog InstanceNamenvarchar(38)NOT NULLName...

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Before and After, Highs and Lows
SQL Server Reporting Services

Before and After, Highs and Lows

So I'm looking for a SQL query that could do this all in one go and return all the results in one table. With PHP & MySQL it's pretty simple: use individual SQL queries to get the count of yesterday, yesterweek, yestermonth, yesteryear and do the layout in PHP. Now let's say I have one RDL or SSRS Solution. I could do...

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