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  1. Room Availability Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/room-availability-calendar-in-business-intelligence-development-studio.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    Use the SQL code above: So you can paste this straight into the textarea or use "Query Builder". 3. Select Matrix Tablix: We want all rooms on the left and the time along the top. We select a matrix because this will automatically group the rows by room...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: *
  2. SSRS External Images don't displayhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-external-images-dont-display.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    Situation We want some photos taken from another website of ours to display in our report. These are not stored locally on the Reporting Server because other services use these photos on our Intranet and we only want one location to upload the photos....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: *
  3. SSRS Retrieving Oracle Stored Procedure Success or ErrorLevelhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-retrieving-oracle-stored-procedure-success-or-errorlevel.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    process failed but when I check the logs, it successfully ran the stored procedure (updating both tables). The Workaround I want to avoid the workaround, because so far my workaround is a fourth report which will do the select to check that the update...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  4. SSRS Zero Paddinghttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-zero-padding.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    Reminder I didn't want to do this at the database level, mainly because it meant modifying the SQL query. The zero padding would need to be applicable within an MDX query. The Situation We have a database using Oracle 10g, and a SQL Server Reporting...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: *
  5. How to Display Report Execution Time in SSRS (milliseconds)https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/how-to-display-report-execution-time-in-ssrs.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    + " second(s)" // yields // 0 hour(s), 1 minute(s), 2 second(s) This isn't what I want... It wasn't accurate enough and always saying 0 seconds was just confusing the end-user... Workaround #1 Although I'm convinced of a solution considering the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  6. Performance Report - Background colors based on dataset valueshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/green-red-background-colors-based-on-dataset-values.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    for all reports (used for the dropdown parameters): SELECT Name, ItemID FROM Catalog WHERE Type = 2 ORDER BY Name If you want to use these datasets, parameter options should be that the Name is the "Label" and ItemID is the "Value", just in case you...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  7. Windows 7 Aero Featureshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/windows-7-aero-features.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    click and you will be brought to your desktop Aero Shake: If you have lots of windows open on your desktop and you only want to look at one, click and hold its window and shake it! All the other windows will minimize, simply shake the window again and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: en-GB
  8. 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

    base and match their setups as closely as possible. Objective My aim is to have IE 8 installed as my Windows browser (I wanted IE7 and the other 2 as standalones but apparently not possible) and then have IE6 and IE7 as separate browsers. If I was at...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: *
  9. Set up Desktop SlideShow in Windows 7https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/set-up-desktop-slideshow-in-windows-7.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    the standard staff image and so we spend more time on "how do you make it like it was in XP?" situations. How? Who doesn't want to change their desktop background wallpaper? Using Windows 7, who doesn't want it to be a slideshow as well? Create a folder...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: en-GB
  10. Administrator Program Shortcut without Prompthttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/administrator-program-shortcut-without-prompt.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    If we don't run them as local administrators on the workstation, they error incessantly and never manage to do what you want them to do. What? I want to create a desktop shortcut that I can double-click and it will run the above programs in...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: *
  11. Apple Magic Trackpad with Windows 11 Intelhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/apple-magic-trackpad-with-windows-11-intel.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    weren't too much of an issue either as MS Windows detected these without needing software. Long rant to justify why I didn't want to drive home (~20 to 40 minutes commute) and pick up my laptop. How? The work and research for this was all in one YouTube...

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

    this example, find typos as well, eg. "Daat ont Ety Aviable". How? Mine's a bit of a copout as it is a two-step process. I wanted a query that searched every column containing strings in the database and we are somewhat limited in Sql Server 2008 R2 by...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  13. Restore MSSQL Error: Database is in usehttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/restore-mssql-error-database-is-in-use.html

    in SSMS, Right-click on the database Select Tasks > Restore... > Database Specify the "to a point in time" if you don't want to restore from the most recent backup and double-check the "Start/Finish Date" is the one you want. OK Searches ssms restore...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  14. Formatting a date in an MDX queryhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/formatting-a-date-in-an-mdx-query.html

    =FormatDateTime(Fields!BirthDate.Value, DateFormat.ShortTime) Unfortunately if you are using US dates and want the report to use a specific European date format and you spend as long as I did searching the web for a solution, then ignore all the above....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: *
  15. 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

    the haystack string and find needle): DECLARE @Haystack VARCHAR(31); SET @Haystack = 'String1.String2.String3.String4'; -- I want "String4" from Haystack SET @Delimiter = '.'; PRINT @Haystack; -- yields "String1.String2.String3.String4" SELECT REVERSE(...

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

    paragraphs of English text. Instead it will be applied to names and addresses as well as job titles and departments. Why? We wanted a T-SQL version despite having successfully built a custom script component for SSIS. How? You can search my site for how...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  17. Accessing a MySQL Database with Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/accessing-a-mysql-database-with-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

    and username + password). Admin Access to the reporting server if you plan on deploying the report to it. Scenario: We want to report on a MySQL database MySQL login information is a user who exists as a MySQL user and a server user. Reporting server is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  18. 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

    to query the Title and the Introductions of any valid articles from BOTH tables and return one table with everything I want. Consider the following two tables exist: Joomla Articles (table name: jos_content): id title introtext...

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

    user. Post-Notes (Update 2012) The performance of the previous version of this query was pretty abysmal and worse if you want to list users who have no associated activities (outer join but all-in-one query). The DBA responsible for the system asked me...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  20. CSS Background Without Causing Scrollbarshttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/css-background-without-causing-scrollbars.html

    with a centered content section (white semi-transparent layer) of 900 pixels width as shown in the following picture: And I want the clouds as another layer ontop aligned to the top right: Tried and failed: Specifying the width of the div layer the same...

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