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  1. Apple Magic Trackpad with Windows 11 Intelhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/apple-magic-trackpad-with-windows-11-intel.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    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 7070) and spent 30...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: *
  2. T-SQL Record Separatorhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/t-sql-record-separator.html

    marked with the separator marker of Stage #1 (note that here separator marker is marked by day1 does not equal day2 rather than a column called marker): --Create CTE WITH tblDifference AS ( SELECT t1.*, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY t1.Date ASC, t1.Start...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  3. CharIndex Reverse - find occurrence starting from end of string in TSQLhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/charindex-reverse-find-occurrence-starting-from-end-of-string-in-tsql.html

    -- yields ".String2.String3.String4" Not quite right, as we got the last occurrence counting from the beginning rather than the end, so we still need to work out the starting point: SELECT LEN(@Haystack) - CHARINDEX(@Delimiter, REVERSE(@Haystack)) --...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  4. T-SQL: Parse an XML valuehttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/t-sql-parse-an-xml-value.html

    extract values from a string containing XML code. Why? I'm working with a system which stores XML strings in a database and rather than a separate file, it stores these in a row. How? Assuming the following data exists in the column "Event_XML" value of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  5. Convert to Proper Case in T-SQLhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/convert-to-proper-case-in-t-sql.html

    postcodes, which isn't included in the examples above because the function was only going to be applied to names and titles rather than addresses, but here it is anyway, add this after the "loop through exception cases" while clause: -- Now for some UK...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  6. MySQL Data Type Reference Tablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/mysql-data-type-reference-table.html

    to use the minimal type and length of the value required. For example, a comment of 500 words should only be TEXT (~64Kb) rather than LONGTEXT (~4Gb). Data Type Column Type Range or Description Storage Numeric TinyInt Signed values from -128 to 127 1...

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

    by ID) in relevant tables. Delete from specific tables but not all Simply don't refer to the table after the DELETE clause. Rather straightforward but I got this answer from StackOverflow. Based on the previous example, here's the query to only delete...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: *
  8. Access MySQL databases using Oracle SQL Developerhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/access-mysql-databases-using-oracle-sql-developer.html

    Server instances but it wasn't practical to link this to mySQL databases. How? So this is how I did it, I found the process rather straightforward anyway so let's begin: Download the JDBC Driver for MySQL (Connector/J) connector from...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  9. Webdeveloper-Speakhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/webdeveloper-speak.html

    I don't usually write an article on another site but I came across it and rather than just add it to my weblinks section, I thought I'd give it a little more credit. "Motive is a web design and development agency based in Wellington, New Zealand...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  10. Three boxes, two roll over, one falls outhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/three-boxes-two-roll-over-one-falls-out.html

    miscalculation of 100% divided by 3 that leaves 1 pixel left over, more the fact that the scripts use that 1 pixel (ceiling rather than floor?). Why? We have a row on a website of three boxes made of div layers. When viewed normally on a 15" Laptop, all...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: *
  11. CSS Center an iFrame Horizontally and Verticallyhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/css-center-an-iframe-horizontally-and-vertically.html

    and vertically in a screen/viewport in pure CSS (no JavaScript allowed). This CSS centers it by its center point rather than the top/bottom/left/right outline. Why? On a mobile, a client's site uses an external page embedded by iframe. When the app...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: en-GB
  12. Joes Word Cloud (JWC) Downloadhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-word-cloud-jwc-downloads.html?catid=105&Itemid=165

    Force no underlines on words. - Date Uploaded: Thu, 11th Nov 2010 1.2.3 - Fixed bug: counts international characters rather than bytes. - Fixed bug: renamed functions so as not to conflict with any pre-existing ones (eg. utf8_strlen) - Date Uploaded:...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Downloads
    • Language: *
  13. DJI Phantom FC40 - Fun at the raceshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/dji-phantom-fc40-fun-at-the-races.html?catid=113&Itemid=165

    of our 1 marshall's head. To be honest, the reason I wasn't using my propeller guards was that I clean forgot which was rather reckless of me, but the winds were really strong, I'd doubled the cost of the quadcopter and that's my mate's girlfriend. I'll...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Quadcopters
    • Language: *
  14. Add default to a picture buttonhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/add-default-to-a-picture-button.html?catid=48&Itemid=165

    to the ENTER key after you typed something (this is for a search feature) in addition to having a button if the user would rather click then press the ENTER key. Then create the mouseover and mouseout effects afterwards. Add the image for your GUI: Gui,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: AutoHotkey
    • Language: *
  15. A for loop within a for loop in MS-DOShttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/a-for-loop-within-a-for-loop-in-ms-dos.html?catid=51&Itemid=165

    How? Note: we're using the code in a DOS Batch program so our variables have to be prefixed with a double-percent rather than just the one: -- the following loops through directory for any file beginning with Reference FOR %%A IN ('DIR...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MS-DOS
    • Language: en-GB
  16. Set default parameter dates to start and end of monthhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/set-default-parameter-dates-to-start-and-end-of-month.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    The requirement in a lot of my reports in SSRS has always been a date range rather than just the one date. The user must be allowed to select all results between two dates instead of just specifying the one day. If the second parameter (ToDate) is the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: *
  17. SSRS Display question mark when date is blankhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-display-question-mark-when-date-is-blank.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    Studio 2012 Premium Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise What? So I have a column in an SSRS report which displays a date. Being rather pernickety, I would like a question mark to display if there is no date to populate the field. Why? At the moment, the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  18. Deserialization and cannot checkout files in TFShttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/deserialization-and-cannot-checkout-files-in-tfs.html?catid=79&Itemid=165

    from annual leave and I can't check-out / check-in any files in a Visual Studio 2010 project. All my colleagues can. What? Rather silly I know and the solution is one of those obvious ones for those that know how but for those who can't remember, then...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Team Foundation Server
    • Language: *
  19. MySQL Oracle equivalentshttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql-oracle-equivalents.html

    title of this article implies something rather odd and upcoming considering that Sun Microsystems bought MySQL and Oracle bought Sun. But in fact, this is just a quick list of some regular commands in MySQL that I need in Oracle: Objective MySQL Oracle...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  20. MySQL Updating a database table from another tablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/mysql-updating-a-database-table-from-another-table.html

    from another table using a string comparison. Why? I have several database tables which replicate country names and I would rather they all use the ccTLD two letter code. This article was written because it took me so long to work it out. How? UPDATE...

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