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Just a quick note as to something that worked for me. Taken from the Oracle forums @ https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=6861756 Situation I have one column of values that I've suffixed a comma to but I want to display this as a rows in a table. This is for Oracle PL/SQL.
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...
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...
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 academic week numbers. So I can't use the built-in functions. The curr...
My setup Windows XP SP3 MS SQL Server Management Studio 2008 SQL Server 2008 R2 Regional Setting: London BST (British Summer Time)
The Why So I find myself writing increasingly complex SQL scripts and it's at the stage where we need to optimize the queries because some scripts are noticeably slow (as observed by the customer...) and then others not. The What I'm going to run these benchmark tests against a system that is both up and running via th...
So I find myself searching the web for a way of producing an outlook-style calendar within Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS). Weekdays along the top and then dates inside. Additionally we would like this linked to events in a database. I'm calling this project "Reinventing the Wheel" because the request w...
Thought I'd add a note as I was getting confused with the built-in function "FormatDateTime()". The example is shown as: =FormatDateTime(Fields!BirthDate.Value, DateFormat.ShortDate) The other formats are: =FormatDateTime(Fields!BirthDate.Value, DateFormat.GeneralDate) =FormatDateTime(Fields!BirthDate.Value, DateFormat...
In 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 ALL clause. Scenario: I have a Joomla module which should take th...
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