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  1. Alternate row background colour in Reporting Serviceshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/alternate-row-background-colour-in-reporting-services.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    row and paste your expression in the "Fill > BackgroundColor" properties row... Done! Borders: I'm putting this here because often enough, if I'm going to make the report pretty with alternating rows, I'm probably going to look at the cell borders as...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: *
  2. Include a carriage return in a column headinghttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/include-a-carriage-return-in-a-column-heading.html?catid=78&Itemid=165

    be a space in between the two words "Academic" and "Week" otherwise the system will only understand the carriage return and often return it as "AcademicWeek"). Other Search(es) Format a column alias with new line Using carriage return in column names...

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

    special character is 3 easy steps: Hold down the ALT key (preferably the one on the left of the spacebar and not the Alt Gr often found on the right of the spacebar) then press the numbers in the numeric pad (while still holding down the ALT key), then...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: *
  4. The ReportServer Databasehttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/the-reportserver-database.html

    summing the remaining columns? Correction, sum will only give me the total time but what if a report has been run twice more often then another, then is it slower? Not necessarily. Like all measures in bytes, I would like a thousand separator, and lose...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  5. Error 1065: Query was Emptyhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/error-1065-query-was-empty.html

    In view of the fact that this error pops up in so many systems I take over, I have often gone down the wrong path following the red herring as it were when in fact the answer to this is very common. Why? Bespoke systems are the usual suspects....

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

    of the article as it is what you should do before running a DELETE FROM statement but I've added it here as I use it quite often: SELECT s.sessionId, ssf.sessionId, sst.sessionId FROM `Session` s LEFT OUTER JOIN `SessionStaff` ssf ON...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: *
  7. Quickly update all content in mySQL database replacing a stringhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/quickly-update-all-content-replacing-a-string.html

    Run the first query again and no rows should be returned. Quick Joomla One I use this reluctantly but often necessarily. SET @stringtoFind=' '; SET @stringtoReplaceWith=' '; UPDATE `MYTABLE_content` SET `introtext` = REPLACE(`introtext`, @stringtoFind,...

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

    these kind of words will return results of similarly typed/sounding words. How? Here's just a splurge of SQL but I use this often enough: UPDATE `myTable` t SET t.`myColumn`=REPLACE(t.`myColumn`, 'À', 'A'); UPDATE `myTable` t SET...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: *
  9. Vertically align an asterisk on a linehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/vertically-align-an-asterisk-on-a-line.html

    to be the same size as the numbers but not overlap any list item beneath it. By increasing the size of the asterisk, this often increases the line-height and causes the overall line height to change for other objects in the same row. The problem...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: *
  10. CSS Ordered List 1, 1.1...1.10 Formatting and Alignmenthttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/css-ordered-list-1-1-1-1-10-formatting-and-alignment.html

    on how create an multi-level ordered list that indents and aligns correctly. Why? I'm finding that I need to do this quite often for some clients who want to include their terms and conditions in quote/invoice templates and want the HTML to be indented...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: en-GB
  11. Creating a Top 10 chart with less codehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/creating-a-top-10-chart-with-less-code.html

    it took me an age to find out how I could do it. This is when using a MySQL query within a PHP script. The process is used often to do a statistics table or top ten chart of your data (eg. movies, music, etc). My aim is to do the following: retrieve...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: *
  12. Convert XML UTF-16 to JSON UTF-8 with PHP cURLhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/convert-xml-utf-16-to-json-utf-8-with-php-curl.html

    // close connection curl_close($ch); Things I stumbled upon regarding SSL and cURL Posted data for third-party apps is often required via SSL so this may come in handy curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
  13. Joel's Reference to MidJourney v4 Promptshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/joel-s-guide-to-midjourney-prompts.html?catid=115&Itemid=165

    This will create custom parameters/argument suffixes you can add which represent a whole string of words that you may use often but don't feel like typing every time. (follow these to the letter or it will simply reset your custom option): type /prefer...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Graphic Design
    • Language: *
  14. Is it a scam? Gumtree.com's warning signshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/is-it-a-scam-gumtreecoms-warning-signs.html?catid=116&Itemid=165

    or prospective tenant/landlord suggests using an escrow service to complete the transaction. These escrow websites often may look official, but are actually run by fraudsters. They’ll take your money and never send you the product. Payment for...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: IT Support
    • Language: *
  15. Zoho Deluge - Pad with leading Zeroshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge/zoho-deluge-pad-with-leading-zeros.html

    to find these in Google so referring to my own website, this is a doddle for me to find each time. Why? I have to do this so often that it deserves an article. Though writing a whole page for this is probably unwarranted so I may rename this article...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho Deluge
    • Language: en-GB
  16. SSRS - Lost window with datasetshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-lost-window-with-datasets.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 Often happens to me and not sure why. You open the project and the window panel for the Report Data containing the parameters and datasets isn't there. I spent a bit of time enabling/disabling toolbars...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  17. MySQL Group_concat equivalent in T-SQL and Oraclehttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql-groupconcat-equivalent-in-t-sql-and-oracle.html

    Note that the following queries include the nested version because I find myself needing to group concatenate more often from another table then using data from the same table. MySQL SELECT ( SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(column_to_return_as_string) FROM...

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