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  1. Copy a Wordpress Site for Developmenthttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/wordpress/copy-a-wordpress-site-for-development.html

    to: Wordpress CMS v4.1.1 What? A note to myself on how to create a development/test version of a production/live Wordpress CMS site. Why? I have a website sitting at a domain (eg. www.myexample.com), and I want to create an exact copy at a subdomain...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Wordpress
    • Language: en-GB
  2. Battery Constantly Drained on iPhonehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/battery-constantly-drained-on-iphone.html?catid=60&Itemid=165

    1 A friend reported her phone was constantly being drained, wasn't lasting the day on a full charge and knew how to close apps running in the background (double-click "home" button and hold down app until red minus buttons appear, tap red button)... I...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Apple
    • Language: *
  3. Google Authentication - OAuth 2.0 using PHP/cURLhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/google-authentication-oauth-2-0-using-php-curl.html?catid=61&Itemid=165

    a script to simply be loaded and to either create a token file, or use the existing one as long as it hasn't expired. Update 2019 This script requires a user to authenticate the google account. I have a newer article called Google Drive API v3 - OAuth2...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Google
    • Language: en-GB
  4. Google Drive API v3 - OAuth2 using Service Account in PHP/JWThttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/google-drive-oauth-using-service-account-in-php.html?catid=61&Itemid=165

    How? I'm going to go through each section of the code to go through the logic and highlight any changes you may need to make. 1. First: the variables are in arrays Well mostly. Simply because we'll be working with JSON data and this encodes/decodes...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Google
    • Language: en-GB
  5. SSIS Convert a string into a datehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssis-convert-a-string-into-a-date.html?catid=74&Itemid=165

    giving up with a "Data Conversion" task. I then parse the date, month and year out using SUBSTRING: -- Assuming [This_Date]="21/03/2012" (DT_DATE)(This_Date) -- Assuming [This_Date]="20120321" (YYYYMMDD) (DT_DATE)(SUBSTRING(This_Date,6,2) + "/" +...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  6. SSIS Skip Blank Rows in Flat File Sourcehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssis-skip-blank-rows-in-flat-file-source.html?catid=74&Itemid=165

    worked in nearly all cases, is to use the "conditional split" task and test one of the columns for a length of greater than 1: Almost! A problem not covered by many sites was happening to me when I had blank rows in a flat file, where it appeared to add...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  7. Alternate row background colour in Reporting Serviceshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/alternate-row-background-colour-in-reporting-services.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    or =IIF(RowNumber(Nothing) Mod 2, "WhiteSmoke", "Garamond") This is telling the report to be white (=#ffffff) in row 1 (odd row numbers) and a very light grey (=#eeeeee) in row 2 (even row numbers). The first row being of all rows in the dataset and not...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: *
  8. SSRS Querying on either of 2 Parametershttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-querying-on-either-of-2-parameters.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    (SSRS 2008 R2) report. We're using Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS VS2008) with Team Foundation Server (TFS VS2010) and connecting to an Oracle database (ie. "seamless integration because our setup is perfect and well thought through" not...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  9. SSRS Parameters in Oracle Stored Procedurehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-parameters-in-oracle-stored-procedure.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    parameters to a Stored Procedure of an Oracle database from within Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. The Error ORA-00911: invalid character ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_UTILITY", line 114 ORA-06512: at line 1 (System.Data.OracleClient) The Situation...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  10. SSRS Dropdown parameter cannot be blank!https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-dropdown-to-allow-blank-values.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    the dropdown SELECT Name, ItemID FROM Catalog WHERE Type = 2 ORDER BY Name ASC NEW: Dataset to populate the dropdown SELECT d1.Name, d1.ItemID FROM ( SELECT Name, ItemID FROM Catalog WHERE Type = 2 UNION ALL SELECT TOP 1 '' AS Name,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  11. Returning Oracle Stored Procedure Resultset in SSRShttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/returning-oracle-stored-procedure-resultset-in-ssrs.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    googled this topic as much as I have, you'll note that everyone seems to be recommending using a cursor. I went through about 10 pages of google results without working out how to use these in SSRS and then resorted to my old methods of debugging. For...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  12. Windows 7: System Clock is constantly going out of synchttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/windows-7-system-clock-is-constantly-going-out-of-sync.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    in seconds. If you wanted to change this to update every day, you would use 86400, or 60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 1 day. I wouldn’t recommend setting this to anything less than 4 hours worth, or your computer might get banned by the time...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: *
  13. Windows OS: Alt Codes / Symbols / Special Charactershttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/windows-os-alt-codes-symbols-special-characters.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    "Symbol Codes" in a search engine for a full list. Meanwhile, here's some that you may need frequently: Currency ¢ Cent sign 0162 £ British Pound 0163 € Euro currency 0128 ¥ Japanese Yen 0165 ƒ Dutch Florin 0131 ¤ Generic currency symbol 0164...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: *
  14. Apple Magic Trackpad with Windows 11 Intelhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/apple-magic-trackpad-with-windows-11-intel.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    A quick article to get an Apple Trackpad working with an MS Windows 11 Pro (Intel 64) workstation. Why? I forgot my work Macbook at home and rather than drive the commute back and forth again, I took my previous biscuit box out (a Dell MFF Optiplex...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: *
  15. Search a database for a value and count matching rowshttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/search-a-database-for-a-value-and-count-matching-rows.html

    ** Author: Joel Lipman ** ** Created On: 29 October 2012 ** ** Revision: v1.0 ** ** Description: Stored Procedure to return counts of records per staging database ** ** table that contains a specific value. ** ** NOTE: This script can be run separate to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  16. T-SQL DateTimestampshttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/t-sql-datetimestamps.html

    XP SP3 MS SQL Server Management Studio 2008 SQL Server 2008 R2 Regional Setting: London BST (British Summer Time) Tuesday the 11th of October 2011 at 06:00am: CONVERT(CHAR(19), CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, 0) Oct 11 2011 6:00AM CONVERT(CHAR(8), CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  17. Copy a table with structure and data into a temporary tablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/copy-a-table-with-structure-and-data-into-a-temporary-table.html

    dbo.usp_MakeTableTemp; GO -- Create Stored Procedure CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.usp_MakeTableTemp @SchemaTableName nvarchar(100) AS BEGIN -- Variables used DECLARE @ColName varchar(50); DECLARE @TableName varchar(50); DECLARE @TableDeclaration nvarchar(4000);...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: *
  18. T-SQL example of Case-Sensitive Soundexhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/t-sql-example-of-case-sensitive-soundex.html

    following, we have a table containing: StudentID StudentDetail Soundex ----------------- ---------------------- ----------- 1 Data not yet available D300 2 Data Not Yet Available D300 3 data not yet available D300 4 Daat oNt EYt Avialable D300 This is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  19. No rows returned in Oracle causes SP to failhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/oracle-pl-sql/no-rows-returned-in-oracle-causes-sp-to-fail.html

    the stored procedure compiling successfully. An empty dataset is still an error it would seem. -- Error I was getting ORA-20001: 1234567:$:ORA-01403: no data found ORA-06512: at "BASETABLEOWNER.MY_STUPID_PROCEDURE", line 56 ORA-01403: no data found...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Oracle PL/SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  20. Accessing a MySQL Database with Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/accessing-a-mysql-database-with-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

    as well as the MySQL database. BIDS is on the client machine. Download and install the MySQL ODBC driver (at time of print v5.1) Visit http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/ Click on "Connector ODBC" Download a version suitable to your system Install...

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