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  1. SSIS Script: convert UPPERCASE to Mixed-Case using TitleCasehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssis-script-convert-uppercase-to-mixed-case-using-titlecase.html?catid=74&Itemid=165

    applied: eg. "Andrew Lloyd-Webber", "Marketing Manager (Acting)", "Lipman***Test" or "R&D". As well as alphanumeric values such as "Flat 4B", "Suite 4899A", "123A Myhouse". Example #2: Using as a Custom Script Component The above will work as a SSIS...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  2. SSIS Multiple Lookups in onehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssis-multiple-lookups-in-one.html?catid=74&Itemid=165

    alternative to multiple lookups in SSIS. For any SSIS developer trying to create packages that need to decode a number of values into their full name/description (eg. "M" to "Male", "Prof" to "Professor"). Why? Our extract phase in the SSIS package...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  3. Report Builder 2.0 - Hide Series1https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/report-builder-20-hide-series1.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    WHERE _SMDBA_.Incident.[Group Name] LIKE @GroupName Based on the assumption that "Series1" displays on my chart because of values that are not matched (not assigned to a current individual) in the joining tables: Return to the Design interface (F8)...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  4. SSRS Parameters in Oracle Stored Procedurehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-parameters-in-oracle-stored-procedure.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    is not to use any of these and to use the GUI dialog of the "Dataset Properties" for that stored procedure. The variable values will be prefixed with @ for SQL Server and not the colon (:) we expected for Oracle. Passing in Variables I've been told that...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  5. SSRS AlphaNumeric Parameter Validationhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-alphanumeric-validation.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    Level AlphaNumeric Check You may have better ways to do this but here are my database level checks for alphanumeric values: -- ORACLE -- 0 if is alphanumeric, 1 or more if not alpha numeric. SELECT (LENGTH(TRIM(TRANSLATE(:ParameterToCheck,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  6. Hide a Drive per User in Windows 7https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/hide-a-drive-per-user-in-windows-7.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    number from the list below you want to set as restricted, and click on OK. -- Restrict multiple drives by adding the values together -- For Example: To Restrict B & C, enter 6 decimal -- " " E & G, enter 80 decimal or 50 hexadecimal Drive Letter Decimal...

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

    NULL This is the rendering format. Mostly RPL if viewed in MS Internet Explorer. Parameters ntext NULL Parameters and the values they were submitted with. TimeStart datetime NOT NULL Time report started to run. TimeEnd datetime NOT NULL Time report...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  8. Search a database for a string (MySQL, T-SQL)https://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/search-a-database-for-a-string-mysql-t-sql.html

    = @CNT_VALUE; #SELECT COUNTER; IF COUNTER>0 THEN # Inserting required results from search to table INSERT INTO temp_details VALUES(db,tbl,clmn); END IF; IF done=1 THEN LEAVE table_loop; END IF; END LOOP; CLOSE table_cur; #Finally Show Results SELECT...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  9. 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

    you want to match on (eg. Customer_ID) ** ** - Column: the column name which will contain this value. ** ** ** ** Return Values : Table of three columns: ** ** - myValue: value specified in parameter 1 (matched in database to search) ** ** - myTable:...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  10. T-SQL Record Separatorhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/t-sql-record-separator.html

    need to add an actual row separating the different days which is either blank or full of hyphens/dashes. Stage #2: Replace values in last data row with blanks The trick to this is to get Stage #1 working for you with your query and then for every column...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  11. Copy a table with structure and data into a temporary tablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/copy-a-table-with-structure-and-data-into-a-temporary-table.html

    varchar(50); DECLARE @TableDeclaration nvarchar(4000); DECLARE @SqlToExecute nvarchar(4000); -- Set variable default values SET @TableName = SUBSTRING(@SchemaTableName, CHARINDEX('.', @SchemaTableName)+1, LEN(@SchemaTableName)); SET @SqlToExecute = '';...

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

    This took me a while to find so I've posted an article below detailing how to parse or 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...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  13. 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

    a string of your choice; and even if you NVL all returned fields, no rows are returned, and not a row of NULL/blank/empty values. Sounds confusing? That's just me, the answer was using two NVL functions which allowed the stored procedure to return no...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Oracle PL/SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  14. Getting the mysql where in delimited string to workhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/getting-the-mysql-where-in-delimited-string-to-work.html

    delim, '')))/LENGTH(delim) + 1; -- get total number delimeters and add 1 -- add 1 since total separated values are 1 more than the number of delimiters -- start of while loop WHILE(ctr

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  15. Country Lookup by IP address CSVhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/country-lookup-by-ip-address.html

    SQL to create a pre-populated table into a MySQL database. iana_ipv4_address_space_registry.csv: comma separated values list of all countries, regions and their respective IP ranges. ip_lookup.php: to use the database License.txt: Released under GNU/GPL...

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

    So I have an unordered list of values (*, 1, 2, 3...) and for styling reasons I want the asterisk 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...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: *
  17. Inline Labels in Form Fields using Javascripthttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/js/inline-labels-in-form-fields-using-javascript.html

    is still black. Additional Note that instead of just saying if this value equals "Name:" I've added some code to trim the values. If the user types two spaces, then we want the field to understand this as "no one entered anything", treat it as empty....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: JavaScript
    • Language: en-GB
  18. Pure JS - Display Time Elapsed & Remaininghttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/js/pure-js-display-time-elapsed-remaining.html

    remaining and seconds elapsed in PHP first then passing these as two variables to the below code but you could get your values from anywhere: On page load, the seconds remaining and elapsed are specified JS then takes over and runs the time var...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: JavaScript
    • Language: *
  19. SITS: Export field code and namehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/xml/sits-export-field-code-and-name.html

    have: export format set to get lookup value -- &GCOD_NAME.COD.SRS England -- What I want: export format to get multiple values -- &G[COD.SRS:•|•] 5826|England How? You can see it in the code above but I'll give the run through using the country of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Extensible Markup Language
    • Language: *
  20. Add attribute xsl:nil=true on empty elements using XSLThttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/xml/xslt/add-attribute-xsl-nil-true-on-empty-elements-using-xslt.html

    // -- What I want: Why? Outputting from SITS:Vision to our staging environment, the application would only output blank values using single tags so we had to find a place to introduce it. On strings this has little worth, but on dates which could be...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: XML Stylesheet Language Transformations
    • Language: *
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