T-SQL Record Separatorhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-record-separator.html

11 October 2011 I have googled, binged and asked but to no avail. Some self-proclaimed IT experts in forums said "why would you want to do that?". Unhelpful Bellends. It's a bit like asking me "Why can't I turn on my computer" and me replying "why would you want to do...

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

MySQL last year week month day trend periodshttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-last-year-week-month-day-trend.html

31 October 2011 Why? I recently made a joomla module that displays the lastest members to signup. It goes a little further and counts activated accounts for the past day, week, month and year (the below examples count all accounts irrespective of being activated or...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• 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 What? We have a report in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 (SSRS) reading from an Oracle 10g database which works great and lists all the details on a specific student. An additional request is that there appears a link that will run a stored...

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

SSRS AlphaNumeric Parameter Validationhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-alphanumeric-validation.html

07 November 2011 Intro If you ever want to check the parameters submitted with a report for alpha numeric characters (so it doesn't contain symbols, punctuations, etc) then you should do this at the database level, and then get the report to complete the check: The Plan...

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

SSRS Zero Paddinghttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-zero-padding.html

10 November 2011 Quick 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...

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

How to Display Report Execution Time in SSRS (milliseconds)https://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/how-to-display-report-execution-time-in-ssrs.html

17 November 2011 How to Display Report Execution Time in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 So there are other articles out there but I was looking to display in milliseconds the execution time it took for a particular report (which searches for results matching the...

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

Joes DNS Correction (JDC)https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-dns-correction2.html?catid=40

25 November 2011 by the following third parties: * AutoHotkey v1.0.48.05 -- http://autohotkey.com/ * Joes Brains v0.1 alpha -- http://joellipman.com/ Future Considerations: Any suggestions? Send them to...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
• Language: *

Performance Report - Background colors based on dataset valueshttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/green-red-background-colors-based-on-dataset-values.html

02 December 2011 Why? I've recently written a report for SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 (SSRS) which will compare up to 4 reports and will compare the time taken for each one. The breakdown or what I was able to measure with the default installation are the times...

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

SSRS Dropdown parameter cannot be blank!https://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-dropdown-to-allow-blank-values.html

14 December 2011 What? I have created an SSRS report which can compare 4 reports side by side and brings up their latest execution times to the nearest millisecond. The report has 4 parameters. Each parameter is a dropdown populated by a list of all available reports....

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

Getting the mysql where in delimited string to workhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/getting-the-mysql-where-in-delimited-string-to-work.html

02 January 2012 What? I have a mySQL database table of room assets that has a field containing the ID numbers of images relevant to this room. The Problem? When I select specifying the statement "WHERE IN (c.RoomImages)", this is interpreted as a string and when...

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

Collin Consulting Ltdhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/collin-consulting-ltd.html?catid=33

29 June 2014 Joe did a really superb job for me on this. My website crashed and I had no idea how to fix it. My hosting service were no help at all. Worse, I hadn't backed up my website for 18 months so even if Joe managed to retrieve it I expected most of my data...

• Type: Article
• Author: Webmaster
• Category: Portfolio
• Language: *

Basic Oracle Function Structurehttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/basic-oracle-function-structure.html

15 January 2012 What? I need to refer to how to create a function in Oracle PL/SQL and sites on the net just attempt to overcomplicate everything and have forgotten how it is to be new to Oracle. I need a function in it's simplest form and if I want to torture my...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: en-GB

Basic Oracle Stored Procedure Structurehttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/basic-oracle-stored-procedure-structure.html

16 January 2012 Previously For a basic Oracle function, visit my article Basic Oracle Function Structure. For a more advanced version which uses cursors to work with SSRS, see my article Oracle Stored Procedures in SSRS. What? I asked someone for a simple, easy and...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: en-GB

Returning Oracle Stored Procedure Resultset in SSRShttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/returning-oracle-stored-procedure-resultset-in-ssrs.html

19 January 2012 What? So I've spent a fun time googling and binging but still haven't found a simple and complete example of getting a resultset from an Oracle stored procedure and displaying this in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Well "non-productive" more than...

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

No rows returned in Oracle causes SP to failhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/no-rows-returned-in-oracle-causes-sp-to-fail.html

24 January 2012 Why? We have a stored procedure which contains two select queries. The first query will retrieve a student ID number where the input parameter is the student's username. The second query will return data using the student ID number found in the first...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: en-GB

How to change local folder for TFShttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/tfs/how-to-change-local-folder-for-tfs.html

08 March 2012 What? I installed Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 (BIDS) and connected it to a Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS) instance and set my working local folder to my home directory. When the rest of my colleagues installed it however, they...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Team Foundation Server
• Language: *

MySQL: Display Users and Duration in Matrix Timesheethttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-display-users-and-duration-in-matrix-timesheet.html

27 April 2012 Given Data Activities by employees with start dates and end dates in a mySQL database. Objective User Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Total --------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- --------- Me 09:00 07:30 08:00 07:00 06:00...

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

Migrate JComments from Joomla 1.5.x to Joomla 2.5.xhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrate-jcomments-from-joomla-15x-to-joomla-25x.html

07 June 2012 Thought I'd add the migration script I've been using to test my JComments migration from my Joomla CMS site version 1.5.20 to Joomla CMS site version 2.5.6. DISCLAIMER I do not work for either Joomla or JoomlaTune (Jcomments) This script is provided as...

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

Prefix Line Numbers in a Text Filehttps://joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/prefix-line-numbers-to-a-text-file.html

18 July 2012 Intro Prefixing lines with their respective line number in a text file using a Microsoft Windows Operating System... I've just googled this as I couldn't remember how I did this last time and a number of people showing off their MS-DOS batch skills have...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MS-DOS
• Language: *

Print Directory Contents to a Filehttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/print-directory-contents-to-a-file.html

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: *