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  1. Android OS: Add GoogleMap as fragmenthttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/app-dev/android-os/android-os-add-googlemap-as-fragment.html

    Why? The previous article meant that the Google map was your main activity and any other activity would be a sub-activity; returning to the map activity would restart the app as a menu item, it would need to launch a new intent... I wanted to change my...

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

    like: Error: Data conversion failed while converting column "This_Date" (3833) to column "This_Date" (3932). The conversion returned status value 2 and status text "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.". Error: SSIS...

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

    it populates only the first dataset with results; the remaining datasets that need to use the ID parameter all returned zero rows. So one workaround exists where if I combined all 10 dataset queries into 1 mega dataset query, problem solved… Another...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  4. Remove write-protect from USB pen in Windowshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/remove-write-protect-from-pen-in-windows.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    I just had to put something here as I have been buying and returning failed/corrupt USB pens. In the past few months I have been trying to upgrade my 16Gb USB Integral Pen from Play.Com to a 32Gb equivalent. I use my USB pen as the "My Documents"...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: en-GB
  5. Running Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 as standaloneshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/running-internet-explorer-6-7-8-as-standalones.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    unstable...) Browser Sandbox (Need IE and install their plugin - does not reflect my customer's PC image) IETester v0.4.3 (Returned different results from my IE7 tests) ie6olas_nt (from http://browsers.evolt.org - works but installing IE8 breaks it)...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: *
  6. Search a database with SOUNDEXhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/search-a-database-with-soundex.html

    you want to search. ** ** ** ** Example: ** ** EXEC [usp_GenerateSearchbySoundexQuery] 'Not Available', 'dbo'; ** ** ** ** Return Values : Table of two columns: ** ** - Value: Your search term and matching variations ** ** - Source: The...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  7. 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
  8. T-SQL: Parse an XML valuehttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/t-sql-parse-an-xml-value.html

    SELECT CAST(CAST(Event_XML AS XML).query('data(/STAFF/GENDER)') AS VARCHAR(10)) AS Gender FROM [dbo].[XML_EVENTS] -- Returns column GENDER for every record/row (eg. "Male") Or -- Using .value() SELECT CAST(Event_XML AS...

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

    with exceptions to the rule, words that you want in a specific case. CREATE FUNCTION ufn_ProperCase(@Text AS VARCHAR(8000)) RETURNS VARCHAR(8000) AS BEGIN -- declare some variables DECLARE @Reset BIT; DECLARE @Ret VARCHAR(8000); DECLARE @i INT; DECLARE...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  10. MySQL parameters in Excel 2007 PivotTableshttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/mysql-parameters-in-excel-2007-pivottables.html

    (using @ - same as T-SQL) and Microsoft Excel 2007 gets confused. Putting it all together Create a SQL query that will return: staffname, activity date, duration, week/year, person days, resource names, and the activity (+ any others you may want to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  11. 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: *
  12. MySQL: Count occurrences of words in a columnhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/mysql-count-occurrences-of-words-in-a-column.html

    most frequently used words in a MySQL database column. How? Note this only applies to MySQL. So the following query will return a count of each word in your database column by order of most used first (replace 'mydbprefix_content' with the name of your...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: *
  13. Display Feeds to major Social Networkshttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/display-feeds-to-major-social-networks.html

    : true, version : 'v2.5' }); }; (function(d, s, id){ var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  14. 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

    function get_data($url) { $ch = curl_init(); $timeout = 5; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout); $data = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); return $data; }...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: *
  15. Blank columns issue when exporting to Excel (Data Only) from Crystal Reportshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/blank-columns-issue-when-exporting-to-excel-data-only-from-crystal-reports.html?catid=110&Itemid=165

    Format Editor dialog box appears. From the Common tab, specify an alignment in the Horizontal Alignment box. Click OK to return to the report. All the objects in the same column now have the same alignment. Export the report to Excel and there will be...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: *
  16. Mouseover Links in AutoHotkeyhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/mouseover-links-in-autohotkey.html?catid=48&Itemid=165

    a link, I want that link to turn blue and display an underline. When I move the cursor away from the link, I want the link returned to black without an underline. How? #NoEnv SendMode Input SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% #SingleInstance Force ;...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: AutoHotkey
    • Language: en-GB
  17. Format Numbers in AutoHotkey with Commashttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/format-numbers-in-autohotkey-with-commas.html?catid=48&Itemid=165

    Loop, %OutputVar% { FirstChar:=Substr(Result, 1, 1) IfEqual, FirstChar, `, { Result:=Substr(Result, 2) } else { break } } Return Result } Use as per usual: ValueWithCommas:=FormatAddCommas(NumberWithoutCommas) One taken from the AutoHotkey forums:...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: AutoHotkey
    • Language: en-GB
  18. SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT name) FROM tablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/select-count-distinct-name-from-table.html

    answer over the web because as soon as I put a WHERE clause in the statements and check the numbers, only method 1 and 2 return the correct number. I'm still unsure as to why WHERE...GROUP BY... doesn't return the same totals and will update this...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: *
  19. Trim in T-SQL and SSIShttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/trim-in-t-sql-and-ssis.html?catid=74&Itemid=165

    Some methods of removing trailing spaces, tabs, carriage returns and line feeds (new lines). How? First in Transact-SQL: SELECT RTRIM( REPLACE( REPLACE( REPLACE( @myString, CHAR(9), ''), CHAR(10), ''), CHAR(13), '') ) -- CHAR(9) = Tab -- CHAR(10) = Line...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  20. If Then Else in Report Builder 2.0 Expressionshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/if-then-else-in-report-builder-20-expressions.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    on how to do if else statements in Report Builder 2.0 I'm looking at the following if statement: If (MyFieldName = 0) Then Return 1 Else Return MyFieldName Can be expressed as: IIf(Fields!MyFieldName.Value = 0, 1, Fields!MyFieldName.Value)

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
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