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  1. Windows 10: Shortcut Apps to Settingshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/windows-10-shortcut-apps-to-settings.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    Display (Orientation) ms-settings:screenrotation Duplicating my display ms-settings:quietmomentspresentation During these hours ms-settings:quietmomentsscheduled Encryption ms-settings:deviceencryption Focus assist ms-settings:quiethours...

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

    total 3 of the columns (which measure in milliseconds) and convert to a time value with milliseconds showing. Now why don't these match? Using in an aggregate, how do I get the milliseconds between start and end times instead of summing the remaining...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  3. Search a database with SOUNDEXhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/search-a-database-with-soundex.html

    What? End-users said that they could see the options "Data Not Yet Available" as well as "Data not yet available". These are obviously the same values, so I should go through the database and change all variations to be typed the same way in the same...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  4. T-SQL example of Case-Sensitive Soundexhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/t-sql-example-of-case-sensitive-soundex.html

    column we have setup default values, let's use the example "Data Not Yet Available". Unfortunately the end-user reported these default values sometimes list twice, especially when the case is different, eg. "Data not yet available". The final system...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  5. DataScramble - Randomizing data rowshttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/datascramble-randomizing-data-rows.html

    scramble database tables sent to suppliers/developers, this is a function which simply finds random characters and inserts these. I would recommend using the DataTumble script over this one as this leaves data very difficult to work with: Before:...

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

    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 the table "XML_EVENTS": 123456 Mr J...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  7. T-SQL functions to convert Strings to Tableshttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/t-sql-functions-to-convert-strings-to-tables.html

    to: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Microsoft SQL Server 2012 What? These were in a solution and I thought I'd note them on my site so I can refer to them more easily. How? Let's start with a function that just converts a string of words delimited by...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  8. 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

    returns NO ROWS and then the second query errors and the whole stored procedure fails. The same problem happens when using these as a subquery which has an empty result set. Furthermore I am using this stored procedure in a SQL Server Reporting Services...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Oracle PL/SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  9. Merge the content of two similar tables in MySQLhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/merge-the-content-of-two-similar-tables-in-mysql.html

    standard SQL we can combine the contents of two tables with a CROSS JOIN, (BTW these are not instructions to create some table I'll never use again unlike the rest of the solutions I found on the web). In MySQL, I only know how to do this with a UNION...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  10. MySQL: Find records in one table that are not in another.https://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/mysql-find-records-in-one-table-that-are-not-in-another.html

    because some scripts are noticeably slow (as observed by the customer...) and then others not. The What I'm going to run these benchmark tests against a system that is both up and running via the front-end and back-end. It's MediaWiki CMS used by...

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

    1 so this is not inclusive). Crude solution but it works in Excel 2007 Now we want to filter the pivotTable data based on these two values... (I don't like the idea of requiring macros as not all users switch this on and teaching executives on how to do...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  12. MySQL: Display Users and Duration in Matrix Timesheethttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/mysql-display-users-and-duration-in-matrix-timesheet.html

    the load on the server and the solution was to separate both tables (activities and users) rather than trying to join these, and to let PHP do a bit more of the work: User Query $t_value = $the_team_id_that_i_want_to_look_at; $user_list_query=" SELECT...

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

    (“\”) character. \% A “%” character. \_ A “_” character. Additional An alternative in SQL to escape apostrophes is to change these to paired apostrophes, so: INSERT INTO myTable VALUES ('1', 'It\'s amazing!'); -- equally valid INSERT INTO myTable VALUES...

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

    date and author. Why? I used to have a third-party plugin that would replace my HTML tags with . Not I want to switch these back. How? For demo purposes, I'm searching a column called introtext in a database table called MYTABLE_content. First let me...

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

    engine doesn't work properly as it thinks "riviere" is different to "rivière". We need to ensure that a search for any of 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...

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

    to author webpages), is an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, and is pronounced: “H-T-M-L”. (Um... think I just call these acronyms myself). permission-based marketing An opt-in policy requires a potential customer to self-select the services they...

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

    site written from scratch, and it's purpose was to manage Staff and Students within the Additional Learning Needs group. These are staff who take lecture notes for people of all disabilities and assist the students for the duration of their course. It...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  18. List of Font Awesomehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/list-of-font-awesome.html

    I needed to use these in a template I was working on. Font awesome is a brilliant tool for webdevelopers who want icons that can be any size of any color without compromising on image quality or overhead maintenance. It's basically a font set that has...

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

    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 do loads of code hacks which is what I tested but all for nothing...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: *
  20. CSS Printing - Page Break Inside with Headers and Footershttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/css-printing-page-break-inside-with-headers-and-footers.html

    this but I wanted an example which includes headers and footers and how to get an automatic page-break-inside to not overlap these. Fine on screen but this is obviously for when it comes to printing. Why? I needed to create a template in HTML where the...

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