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  1. T-SQL concatenate an incremental row numberhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/t-sql-concatenate-an-incremental-row-number.html

    001 00101 001 00102 002 00203 -- Wrong! This should start from 1 for another employee. 002 00204 003 00305 Almost There! So we're using the ROW_NUMBER() functionality with an ORDER BY which seems to work somewhat. But using the code above still produces...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  2. 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

    I am using this stored procedure in a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) environment and don't want to return any rows if there are no matches (not a blank row either) as one of my reports uses a row counter to display a "No data found" message when...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Oracle PL/SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  3. Data Randomization Function in Oracle PL/SQLhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/oracle-pl-sql/data-randomization-function-in-oracle-plsql.html

    original data but the same length and the same type of data. Why? The joy of working with the plethora of applications out there result in me using MySQL, Oracle PL/SQL and Transact SQL in my day job. The equivalent functions have to be written up all...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Oracle PL/SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  4. Fix Oracle Tnsping 3511 without Windows Registryhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/oracle-pl-sql/fix-oracle-tnsping-3511-without-windows-registry.html

    that need to support these kind of systems and not as an invite for suggestions on how my business should be run. How? So there are a variety of solutions that will fix this. However we have certain restrictions in my work environment thanks partly to...

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

    INNER JOIN Teams t ON t.TeamID=s.TeamID GROUP BY s.LogID ORDER BY s.TeamID, u.Username, s.DateTimeCreated, Resource Note there is no WHERE clause because we're going to use EXCEL filters as the parameters. Bit of a cop-out but this was just a workaround...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  6. mysqldump: Got error: 2049: Connection using old (pre-4.1.1) authentication protocol refused (client option 'secure_auth' enabled) when trying to connecthttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/mysqldump-got-error-2049-connection-using-old-pre-4-1-1-authentication-protocol-refused-client-option-secure-auth-enabled-when-trying-to-connect.html

    but I found this on the MySQL Forums. Someone solved their issue by resetting (or re-issuing) their password which implies there was an issue with pre 4.1.1 passwords and the hashing algorithm: SET session old_passwords = 0; SET PASSWORD for 'youruser'...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: *
  7. Project Plan for Freelance Websitehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/project-plan-for-freelance-website.html

    find this overwhelming. It's in business techno babble and I get asked what does this mean in stage 1? And this in stage 2? (There are over 100 stages)... Below is my template project initiation plan (project mandate?) for my freelance website...

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

    A quick article on how I displayed feeds from the company's social network pages in one page. Why? There are 3rd-party apps that let you do this, some paid, some not. This was for a staff portal so I wanted this at no extra cost. This is read-only so...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  9. CSS keeping the footer at the bottomhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/css-keeping-the-footer-at-the-bottom.html

    effect in its own separate layer. In a joomla CMS template though, I wanted the "left" div to take over the whole page if there were no modules positioned in the "right" div. I specified width of left using PHP. This is the CSS though: #container {...

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

    using Chrome and tolerable using MS Internet Explorer. If we maximized the Google Chrome browser, the row would split and there would be 2 boxes on the top row and the third would pop under these. As for MSIE, that was ok when maximized. How? You could...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: *
  11. 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

    to include their terms and conditions in quote/invoice templates and want the HTML to be indented neatly. Other examples out there will work, but I found that once the list count increased the number of digits (eg. 1.10) the text would be more indented...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: en-GB
  12. Sort an associative array by values in Javascripthttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/js/sort-an-associative-array-by-values-in-javascript.html

    What? An article on how to quickly adapt an array code and sort by its values. Surprising how many examples are on the web and everyone saying you're doing it wrong... Which is true but quite unhelpful. The original code is not my own either but that's...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: JavaScript
    • Language: *
  13. UTF8 Unicode PHP MySQL for International Charactershttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/utf8-unicode-php-mysql-for-international-characters.html

    is a note to myself but also to anyone out there who's spent as long as I did looking for a solution to this. Maybe it's just me but this is the scenario: Joomla works fine with international characters A Module Extension I wrote for Joomla! displayed...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
  14. 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

    content in /public_html/.../.../my_script.php on line ### Why? So I've googled, binged and yahoo'd for this and although there are some solutions that deal with loading UTF16 content into SimpleXMLElement or simplexml_load_string, it doesn't solve my...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
  15. URL Alias uniqueness with PHP & MySQLhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/url-alias-uniqueness-with-php-mysql.html

    to use in URLs I want that Why? These are used as inputs to server-side scripts for the sake of search-engine friendliness. There are no silver bullets here but I want to block any character that isn't a letter, a number or an underscore. How? Suppose...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
  16. The Mermaidhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/the-mermaid.html?catid=96&Itemid=165

    a Friday morn when we set sail And our ship not far from land, We there did espy a fair pretty maid, With a comb and a glass in her hand, Her hand, her hand, With a comb and a glass in her hand. While the raging seas do roar, And the stormy winds do...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Hobbies
    • Language: *
  17. Accessing Apimo WebService APIhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/accessing-apimo-webservice-api.html?catid=109&Itemid=165

    get the configuration right. After several days... I tried the example as per the Apimo documentation and it worked! There were a few adjustments to make which I'm documenting here. Basic Example Here's a complete PHP script of a basic example of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: API Miscellaneous
    • Language: *
  18. Crystal Reports: Exporting to Excel omits column headershttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/crystal-reports-exporting-to-excel-omits-column-headers.html?catid=110&Itemid=165

    and only some of the column headers appear, then try this: I googled this for ages and found different suggestions here and there but none of them produced consistent results. One solution was to untick "Simplify page headers" on the Excel Format...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: en-GB
  19. MS Excel: Convert a text to a numberhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ms-excel-convert-a-text-to-a-number.html?catid=110&Itemid=165

    with your data but the way I see it is it's a space character and TRIM() should work. My solution Include the space (if there is one) in the substitute formula: =SUBSTITUTE(B3, " ₱", "") The resulting value will still need to be multiplied by 1 to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: en-GB
  20. Excel - Check a column for values found in another columnhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/excel-check-a-column-for-values-found-in-another-column.html?catid=110&Itemid=165

    string to search (in this case a single cell value). Sheet2!$A$1:$A$4 is the range of words to find from Sheet2. Note that there is a dollar in front of both column name (eg. "A") and the row number (eg. "1") so that these don't automatically change...

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