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  1. SQL Queries for Statisticshttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/sql-queries-for-statistics.html

    the User ID (VisitorID, 0 if not logged in) and of course the Timestamp (DateTimeStamp). Here is a page of some MySQL queries I can do based on just those 5 columns: MediaWiki: number of unique guests, students and staff by month. Also associates a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: *
  2. Delete related records from multiple tableshttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/delete-related-records-from-multiple-tables.html

    So this is a quick article on how to delete from multiple tables in a mySQL database where we use some JOIN statements. Why? It is never recommended to delete from multiple tables and instead to use the system you were given. Given a Relational Database...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: *
  3. Convert foreign characters to English alphabethttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/convert-foreign-characters-to-english-alphabet.html

    A quick article showing my MySQL statement when I want to remove all the accents from foreign characters and return the English equivalent. Why? A content management system (CMS) that I'm working on has just gone international and started including the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: *
  4. Difference between two dates - the midnight hourhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/difference-between-two-dates-the-midnight-hour.html

    might already have something similar to this but this deserves its own article. Why? Well try to search the web for a PHP/MySQL solution which suggests on how to count the hours between two times on the same date, when one of the hours is on the other...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  5. Developer's Checklist: Taking over a projecthttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/developers-checklist-taking-over-a-project.html

    included it's own timesheet / session management / invoicing system. The website was held on a virtual host running PHP and MySQL. There was no documentation, logs, notes, and any code comments were in Hungarian (later found out it was slang or a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  6. Using a HTML form and PHP to upload a filehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/using-a-html-form-and-php-to-upload-a-file.html

    form with an input field type of 'FILE' (ie. ) and want a PHP file to process this. This example applies to a Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) environment. The Solution 1. The first thing to do is check that your HTML form is setup to do this:...... The...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
  7. PHP Issue: simplexml_load_string parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !https://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/php-issue-simplexml-load-string-parser-error-input-is-not-proper-utf-8-indicate-encoding.html

    things I tried but to no avail The solution above was as easy as that. Here are a number of other things I tried first: mysql_set_charset(): No iconv(): No htmlentities(): No preg_replace_callback(): No sxe(): No $xml = simplexml_load_string(...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: *
  8. Joes Word Cloud (JWC) Downloadhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-word-cloud-jwc-downloads.html?catid=105&Itemid=165

    release - Date Uploaded: Mon, 8th Aug 2011 1.6.7 - Bug Fix: Removed use of Joomla Core db->nameQuote function for old MySQL. - Enhancement: Check for W3C Validation and force fix "&". - Double-check that unicode characters work in exclusion list. (they...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Downloads
    • Language: *
  9. Submit form as a server and not the client with cURLhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/submit-form-as-a-server-and-not-the-client-with-curl.html?catid=109&Itemid=165

    values from a submitted HTML form and sends it to a server on another domain for processing. This applies to Linux Apache MySQL and PHP (LAMP) setups. Why? A customer wanted to connect their Mobile App to a third-party API. The third-party only accepts...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: API Miscellaneous
    • Language: *
  10. SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT name) FROM tablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/select-count-distinct-name-from-table.html

    Content Management System, but within the Joomla! CMS, an error 1054 comes up if you use the above statement. Why? The MySQL statement SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT name) FROM table is valid but I get what you mean and it's sometimes difficult to explain why...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: *
  11. Modifying columns in a tablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/modifying-columns-in-a-table.html

    TABLE myTable DROP COLUMN myColumn -- Reorder a column ALTER TABLE myTable MODIFY COLUMN misplacedColumn AFTER otherColumn; MySQL and Oracle PL/SQL ALTER TABLE myTable MODIFY myColumn myDataType Microsoft Transact SQL (T-SQL) ALTER TABLE myTable ALTER...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: *
  12. Regular Expressions in SQLhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/regular-expressions-in-sql.html

    where the student surname does NOT contain a letter or number -- eg. O'Brien will NOT be returned as it contains letters MySQL And my favorite. Note the circumflex as we are still excluding non-alphanumeric rows. SELECT * FROM Students WHERE...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: *
  13. Oracle: order by subquery missing right parenthesishttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/oracle-pl-sql/oracle-order-by-subquery-missing-right-parenthesis.html

    is associated with the current row, and often enough we get the latest by ordering the dataset of the subquery. In T-SQL and MySQL, this is not so much of an issue. I get this error when having to use an ORDER BY clause in a subquery within an Oracle...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Oracle PL/SQL
    • Language: *
  14. Convert seconds to total time in PHPhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/convert-seconds-to-total-time-in-php.html

    This is intended for activity/session durations and although I usually get MySQL to do the date/time calculations, there are times when we have to do with PHP. This is the shortest way I know to properly convert seconds into total hours, minutes and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
  15. Convert Decimal (Person Days) to Time in Excelhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/convert-decimal-person-days-to-time-in-excel.html?catid=110&Itemid=165

    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...

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