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  1. SSIS Convert a string into a datehttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-convert-a-string-into-a-date.html

    (DT_WSTR) and another as a integer (DT_R8). Why? It took me a long time to figure this and it was only by trawling through columns that someone mentioned that maybe all the data in that column is not consistent? This made sense as I need to parse the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  2. Search a database with SOUNDEXhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/search-a-database-with-soundex.html

    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 4000 characters in a variable (so...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  3. Include a carriage return in a column headinghttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sql-server/include-a-carriage-return-in-a-column-heading.html

    7 Enterprise (Client) MS Excel 2010 What? A really quick note on how to insert a carriage return or new line into the column name/alias (the header). It might seem trivial but these little aesthetic changes done at the database level can save some time....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server
    • Language: *
  4. Blank columns issue when exporting to Excel (Data Only) from Crystal Reportshttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/blank-columns-issue-when-exporting-to-excel-data-only-from-crystal-reports.html

    a further issue with our web-report is that even an export to Excel (Data Only) from Crystal Reports 9, created extra columns. This issue could not be replicated on the client machine (ie. from my workstation). I would have to upload the report to the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: *
  5. Excel: convert degrees minutes seconds to decimalhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-convert-degrees-minutes-seconds-to-decimal.html

    on how to get the value of 40°4′20″N 116°35′51″E into 40.079857, 116.603112. How? Let's pretend all the names are in column A, in Column B I have the coordinates that I want to convert: A B ------------------------------------- ----------------------...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: en-GB
  6. Excel - Check a column for values found in another columnhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-check-a-column-for-values-found-in-another-column.html

    This is an article to remind me how to search a column in an Excel file for values found in another column (in this example, on another worksheet in the same workbook). How? So for demonstration purposes, I'm using a new Excel file with two worksheets...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: en-GB
  7. ZohoCRM: Import Attachmentshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-import-attachments.html

    to CRM Contact records. There's first the preparation of an "Attachments.csv" file that needs the correct values in each column and the "Attachments.zip" containing the files to attach that needs some formatting as well: Note that any IDs used in the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho
    • Language: *
  8. Zoho Analytics: Create a Monitoring System with Imageshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-analytics-create-a-monitoring-system-with-images.html

    > Then select "Dashboard": Then in the top right of the dashboard, I'm going to click on the "Widget" button: On the data column, I'll select any query and any field. It doesn't matter which one here, as long as I can get to the 3rd tab of the widget...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho
    • Language: *
  9. Search a database for a value and count matching rowshttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/search-a-database-for-a-value-and-count-matching-rows.html

    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 is "3" (the 3rd incremental load)....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  10. Excel: Find values in one column that are not in anotherhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-find-values-in-one-column-that-are-not-in-another.html

    A quick note on how to compare two columns for values that are not found in another. I have a column with old values, and now that I have a new list, I want a quick way to see what values are in the old column and which ones are new... Why? Consider the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: *
  11. SSIS Skip Blank Rows in Flat File Sourcehttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-skip-blank-rows-in-flat-file-source.html

    The conditional operation failed. Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_INDUCEDTRANSFORMFAILUREONERROR. The "component "MyDerivedColumns" (4228)" failed because error code 0xC0049063 occurred, and the error row disposition on "output column "DC_MyDate" (7349)"...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  12. SSIS Script: convert UPPERCASE to Mixed-Case using TitleCasehttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-script-convert-uppercase-to-mixed-case-using-titlecase.html

    (do they ever?). The script must be able to be copied into other SSIS packages. Need the option to merely tick input column names rather than hardcode these. "It " should be an acronym for IT, so "IT Department" and "Director of IT". "O'REILLY" should...

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

    structure to match given table SET @TableDeclaration='ALTER TABLE #myScrambledTable ADD ' + STUFF( ( -- Code to concatenate column names and data types into one string SELECT CASE WHEN CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH IS NULL THEN ',' + COLUMN_NAME + ' ' +...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: *
  14. Reorder Columns in a Tablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/reorder-columns-in-a-table.html

    Just a quick note to myself on how to reorder columns as I was having difficulty using a phpMyAdmin interface to do this. How? Taken from the best forum for programming Qs&As: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4095481/easy-way-to-re-order-columns...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: *
  15. Split a row into multiple rows based on a column valuehttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/split-a-row-into-multiple-rows-based-on-a-column-value.html

    Transact-SQL (T-SQL) What? This is a quick article on how to split a single row into multipe rows based on the value of a column in the same table. Why? I have a table that has all the days of sickness of employees. This table contains, which employee,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: *
  16. MySQL: Count occurrences of words in a columnhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-count-occurrences-of-words-in-a-column.html

    This is an article to document how to output the most frequently used words in a MySQL database column. How? Note this only applies to MySQL. So the following query will return a count of each word in your database column by order of most used first...

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

    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 find all the articles that need this change: SET...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  18. SSIS Skip Rows in Excel Source filehttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-skip-rows-in-excel-source-file.html

    simply using a text file as your data source, then the options in the connection manager will let you skip rows and specify column datatypes. You don't get that with Excel but you can still control the data range. How? My example is that I have an excel...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  19. Import Excel CSV file as JavaScript arrayhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/import-excel-csv-file-as-javascript-array.html

    my_csv_rows_array.forEach( function (row_content, row_index) { // clear and declare the array var column_values = []; // regex to ignore commas between double-quotes var column_values = row_content.split(/,(?=(?:(?:[^"]*"){2})*[^"]*$)/); // prevents JS...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: en-GB
  20. MS Excel - Sort pivottable column headings by datehttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/sort-pivottable-column-headings-by-date.html

    This is a quick note to myself so that I never use parentheses in the column headings again. Basically I have a pivot table in Microsoft Excel 2010 with the projects down the left (in the first column) and the days of the week along the top. Why? The...

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