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

03 August 2012 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 copy...

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

Search a database for a string (MySQL, T-SQL)https://joellipman.com/articles/database/search-a-database-for-a-string-mysql-t-sql.html

08 October 2012 = 'dnya'; DECLARE MyCursor CURSOR FOR SELECT 'SELECT ' + COLUMN_NAME + ' COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS AS column1 FROM ' + (TABLE_SCHEMA + '.' + TABLE_NAME) + ' WHERE SOUNDEX(' + COLUMN_NAME + ')=SOUNDEX('''+ @mySearchString +''')' + CHAR(10) FROM...

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

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

05 November 2012 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 is...

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

Migrating from Joomla 2.5.x to 3.4.xhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-2-5-x-to-3-4-x.html

12 September 2015 to an instance of Joomla! CMS version 3.4.1. I would consider the below instructions an ALPHA version as it is considered unstable for official use... Saying that this is how I upgraded my own personal website: www.joellipman.com. This article assumes...

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

SSRS Retrieving Oracle Stored Procedure Success or ErrorLevelhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-retrieving-oracle-stored-procedure-success-or-errorlevel.html

04 November 2011 An additional request is that there appears a link that will run a stored procedure which Updates a timestamp in an existing table Inserts a row into an audit table I need the report to run the stored procedure, then based on the errorlevel, return a...

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

Reorder Columns in a Tablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/reorder-columns-in-a-table.html

22 July 2013 So in the phpMyAdmin interface, apparently, you can drag the columns by clicking and holding on the headers when viewing a table structure... Though maybe this is derived from a template and depending on if you are using MS Internet Explorer... Can't...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Databases
• Language: *

MySQL Updating a database table from another tablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-updating-a-database-table-from-another-table.html

22 October 2014 A quick article on how to populate a database column from another table using a string comparison. Why? I have several database tables which replicate country names and I would rather they all use the ccTLD two letter code. This article was written...

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

Parse a HTML Table into a ListViewhttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/html/parse-a-html-table-into-a-listview.html

30 March 2013 article on if you were given a webpage coded in HTML, what methods in AutoHotkey could you use to separate out the HTML Tables into a ListView. Why? I want a snippet of code that replicates any HTML table. How? I've been trying various ways so I'm...

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

Modifying columns in a tablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/modifying-columns-in-a-table.html

24 July 2013 This is an article to remind me how to modify a column in a database table the old fashioned way (as in stop making me use GUI interfaces so poorly programmed when even I've made better DBMS tools). All SQL -- Add a column to an existing table (giving...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Databases
• Language: *

Search a database with SOUNDEXhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/search-a-database-with-soundex.html

11 October 2012 the full query to your output panel: CREATE PROCEDURE [usp_GenerateSearchbySoundexQuery] ( @p_SearchString VARCHAR(max), @p_TableSchema VARCHAR(max) ) AS...

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

T-SQL functions to convert Strings to Tableshttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-functions-to-convert-strings-to-tables.html

20 August 2014 refer to them more easily. How? Let's start with a function that just converts a string of words delimited by spaces to a table: CREATE FUNCTION dbo.[ufn_StringToTable] ( @StringInput VARCHAR(MAX) ) RETURNS @OutputTable TABLE ( StringValue VARCHAR(10) )...

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

Zoho Analytics: Create a Monitoring System with Imageshttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-analytics-create-a-monitoring-system-with-images.html

25 July 2024 trick to use here the ability for Zoho Analytics to display different images based on a criteria or a value within a data table. As documented in an earlier article, put the URL of the image, then change it's format to show the image and not the URL...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT name) FROM tablehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/select-count-distinct-name-from-table.html

24 September 2015 CMS, an error 1054 comes up if you use the above statement. Why? The MySQL statement SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT name) FROM table is valid but I get what you mean and it's sometimes difficult to explain why you want to use it. How? Method #1: Add an alias to...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

Migrate Joomla! 1.5.x to 2.5.x+https://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-15-to-16.html

30 January 2011 articles on each iteration so as to avoid session timeouts and memory issues. Edit the script, renaming the database and table names used (DO NOT CONFUSE THE FOLLOWING DATABASE NAMES OR YOU WILL END UP WITH NEITHER SITE WORKING!!!) Open the SQL file in...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

MySQL: Find records in one table that are not in another.https://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-find-records-in-one-table-that-are-not-in-another.html

25 February 2011 MediaWiki CMS used by Wikipedia.org and the like. I like queries against this database because it involves linking a lot of tables and outputting... just articles and their titles. I have another table holding the audit trail of content approvers on the...

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

ZohoDesk & ZohoAnalytics: Display Ticket Attachments in Analytics Reporthttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohodesk-zohoanalytics-display-ticket-attachments-in-analytics-report.html

05 December 2023 Why? First of all, we couldn't find how to sync attachments from ZohoDesk to ZohoAnalytics using the integration. Other tables will sync but we couldn't find attachments, so our solution here is to create a data table and then to push the attachment...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

A quick run through of setting up an export process in SITShttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/a-quick-run-through-of-setting-up-an-export-process-in-sits.html

21 August 2014 so this is a somewhat summarized article on how to get data out of SITS, up to running the monitors and populating an OUTPUT table in the SITS database. Note that this does not include steps thereafter in the Staging or Target destination which will be...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Extensible Markup Language
• Language: *

MySQL Group_concat equivalent in T-SQL and Oraclehttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql-groupconcat-equivalent-in-t-sql-and-oracle.html

28 November 2011 the following queries include the nested version because I find myself needing to group concatenate more often from another table then using data from the same table. MySQL SELECT ( SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(column_to_return_as_string) FROM a_pretend_table...

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

SSRS Hide results table if emptyhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-hide-results-table-if-empty.html

29 March 2011 Transact-SQL and MDX expressions" but boy what a mouthful, and it's not really iterating anymore. So it's "SSRS Hide results table if empty" though I will add that if you wanted to put a message instead of hiding the table then following the below will...

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

Zoho Deluge: Convert Map to HTML Table without a FOR loophttps://joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-convert-map-to-html-table-without-a-for-loop.html

11 January 2021 A very quick article on converting a Map string into a HTML table without using a for each loop. Why? I have quite a big response from our CRM that hits a statement execution limit if I use a for loop. I have a map with 3 columns: first_name, last_name,...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *