Google Authentication - OAuth 2.0 using PHP/cURLhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/google-authentication-oauth-2-0-using-php-curl.html?catid=61&Itemid=165

31 October 2018 What? This is an article which lists the functions necessary to process Google Authentication using OAuth2.0. These functions allow a script to simply be loaded and to either create a token file, or use the existing one as long as it hasn't expired....

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

Google Drive API v3 - OAuth2 using Service Account in PHP/JWThttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/google-drive-oauth-using-service-account-in-php.html?catid=61&Itemid=165

02 February 2019 What? This is an article explaining the code needed to write a PHP script which generates an access token for a service account which in turn is used to list files in a team's Google Drive. This is very different to my code for OAuth when attended:...

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

SSIS Skip Blank Rows in Flat File Sourcehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssis-skip-blank-rows-in-flat-file-source.html?catid=74&Itemid=165

23 April 2013 What? This is a quick article to remind me on how to skip blank rows when using a Flat file as a data source. I would receive another Microsoft error as clear as mud: Error: The conditional operation failed. Error: SSIS Error Code...

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

SSIS Multiple Lookups in onehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssis-multiple-lookups-in-one.html?catid=74&Itemid=165

05 August 2014 What? A quick article on an 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...

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

Report Builder 2.0 - Hide Series1https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/report-builder-20-hide-series1.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

06 May 2010 Dunno about you guys but I've searched the WWW for a solution and couldn't find it. The work around I've documented is a "solution" to my situation and environment. Our setup is: SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 BMC Service Desk Express 9.8 DataSet1:...

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

SSRS: Performance Improvements: SELECT TOPhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-performance-improvements-select-top.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

07 March 2014 What? This article details a method we used on a search form in a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) environment. The requirement (amongst others) was that the report ran in less than a few seconds. Analyzing the report through the ReportServer...

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

SSRS Stop Scrolling Behindhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-stop-scrolling-behind.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

08 April 2014 Applies to: Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2008 R2 Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio What? I recently revamped our standard report with a new template comprising of a single Tablix which...

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

Connection Strings for SQL Serverhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/connection-strings-for-sql-server.html?catid=78&Itemid=165

05 January 2011 Download Connectors from dev.MySQL.com MySQL Connector/Net Type: .NET Framework Class Library Usage: MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnection Manufacturer: MySQL Standard Server=myServerAddress;Database=myDataBase;Uid=myUsername;Pwd=myPassword; Default...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server
• Language: *

Windows 7: System Clock is constantly going out of synchttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/windows-7-system-clock-is-constantly-going-out-of-sync.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

28 January 2010 The Issue People have reported that although they have manually set the date/time on their computer, this gets changed by the windows time server (time.windows.com) when connected to the Internet and for some reason it doesn't display the right...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: *

Windows Live Messenger: Error 80048820https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/windows-live-messenger-error-80048820.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

08 March 2010 This is an issue relating to the Time Server Synchronization error. Basically you start up windows live messenger and get the following error: {rokbox title=|Messenger Error 80048820|}/images/screenshots/windows_live_error_80048820.png{/rokbox}...

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

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

13 April 2010 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

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

18 May 2010 Intro I know there are a lot of articles on the WWW detailing this process but none of them really worked for me. I recently changed job and no longer have all my test machines at work. Instead I only have the one workstation :eek Still I've been asked...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: *

Print Directory Contents to a Filehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/print-directory-contents-to-a-file.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

19 July 2012 Why? A friend asked me if there was a quick way to simply right-click on a folder in Windows Explorer and it would generate a text file with the contents of the directory he right-clicked. What? We can do this by adding an entry to the context menu...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: *

Administrator Program Shortcut without Prompthttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/administrator-program-shortcut-without-prompt.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

25 February 2013 Applies to: - Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise - User with Local Administrator Privileges (required for setup) Why? Our work has group policies and two of our programs, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (VS2010) and Business Intelligence Development Studio...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: *

Apple Magic Trackpad with Windows 11 Intelhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/apple-magic-trackpad-with-windows-11-intel.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

20 October 2025 What? A quick article to get an Apple Trackpad working with an MS Windows 11 Pro (Intel 64) workstation. Why? I forgot my work Macbook at home and rather than drive the commute back and forth again, I took my previous biscuit box out (a Dell MFF...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: *

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

05 November 2012 What? We have a datawarehouse and we want to be able to count all the records in any table of the database that match on a particular warehouse load. This is a column value where the column is called "WarehouseLoadKey" and the value we want to search on...

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

Error during processing - Converting Date/Timehttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/error-during-processing-converting-datetime.html

13 July 2010 Well I find myself again the dummie of the Internet. I basically came across this error and STFW'd for ages following complex T-SQL Timestamp conversions but to no avail. Not saying that you shouldn't try their solutions but just check you haven't done...

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

Returned a data type that is not validhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/returned-a-data-type-that-is-not-valid.html

06 January 2011 Thought I'd put a note on this error. Bearing in mind that this is a general data type error and not just because I tried to convert a date in SQL format to a Month name. An error occurred during local report processing. An error has occurred during...

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

Drop If Object Existshttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/drop-if-object-exists.html

03 August 2012 What? Some people have been suggesting you can use "CREATE OR REPLACE... VIEW... FUNCTION" but my SQL Server 2008 Management Studio doesn't like this and refuses to understand what I'm trying to do. Why? As this data seemed to be across various...

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

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

03 August 2012 Why? Hmm... I was writing a stored procedure that will scramble data given a table as a parameter. Because I only want to update a temporary table and not the original (source) table, I needed the following stored procedure (or part of). What? This will...

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