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This is a quick article on how to change your profile picture in your company's sharepoint site. Sounds straightforward but without being allowed to upload images or edit other profiles, each user has to do this with the permissions they've been given.
So like lots of people on the net, I've been given a datasource with names and addresses all in UPPERCASE. Initially, no one seemed bothered but now the request came through asking if this could be restored to a normal case, a mixture of mostly lowercase and some UPPERCASE.
Some methods of removing trailing spaces, tabs, carriage returns and line feeds (new lines). How? First in Transact-SQL:
This is a quick article to remind me on how to skip blank rows when using a Flat file as a data source. I would receive another Microsoft error as clear as mud: Error: The conditional operation failed. Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_INDUCEDTRANSFORMFAILUREONERROR. The "component "MyDerivedColumns" (4228)" failed because...
This is a quick note to myself so that I never use parentheses in the column headings again. Basically I have a pivot table in Microsoft Excel 2010 with the projects down the left (in the first column) and the days of the week along the top.
A quick article on how to skip rows or even specify a range to extract from the Excel file when using as the DataSource.
Please note: the following article is not a solution but a page of various methods and date conversions which I try and use depending on the situation. This is a quick article on how I got time conversion working in an SSIS package which read from a text file. Note that the example below converts a string in European D...
I want to create a desktop shortcut that I can double-click and it will run the above programs in administrator mode without confirmation by the Windows operating system. At home this may not be a problem but this is intended for those in an office environment and we get prompted to login (with the same account as we'r...
We have an excel spreadsheet which reports against a mySQL database and reads time spent on projects by IT Service colleagues. The main report is a pivot table with staff members along the top, tasks down the first column, and time spent in the form of person days in the cross-join.
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