Error 1065: Query was Emptyhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/error-1065-query-was-empty.html

13 December 2012 What? In view of the fact that this error pops up in so many systems I take over, I have often gone down the wrong path following the red herring as it were when in fact the answer to this is very common. Why? Bespoke systems are the usual suspects....

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

Setup a copy of your Joomla websitehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/setup-a-copy-of-your-joomla-website.html

19 December 2012 What? More for others than for myself, but this article is for those who do not have development/test environments of their Joomla website. I have been doing this for years and still come across clients who have the one version of their website. They...

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

Upgrading a Joomla 1.5 module to Joomla 2.5http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/upgrade-a-joomla-1-5-module-to-joomla-1-6.html

11 February 2011 What? So this is a note to myself so that I have a checklist and can quickly update any extensions designed for Joomla 1.5.x and make these compatible with Joomla 2.5.x websites. In the past, I have only ever changed the words to but for more stability,...

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

Delete related records from multiple tableshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/delete-related-records-from-multiple-tables.html

11 January 2013 What? So this is a quick article on how to delete from multiple tables in a mySQL database where we use some JOIN statements. Why? It is never recommended to delete from multiple tables and instead to use the system you were given. Given a Relational...

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

Three boxes, two roll over, one falls outhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/three-boxes-two-roll-over-one-falls-out.html

21 January 2013 What? So this is an article to note an oddity when I was working with a Yootheme template called "yoo_sync". Some clever scripts (both mootools and jquery) using the equalize method to make div layers the same height, and in this case, the same width....

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Cascading Stylesheets
• Language: *

Set up Desktop SlideShow in Windows 7http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/set-up-desktop-slideshow-in-windows-7.html

22 January 2013 What? Applies to Windows 7. Requires a Vogonian environment of red tape and bureaucracy. This is an article to describe an alternative method then "right-clicking on the desktop", "selecting Personalize", "clicking on Desktop Background", "browsing to...

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

Proposed Budget i3 PC under £200http://mail.joellipman.com/hardware/proposed-budget-i3-pc-under-200.html

26 January 2013 i3 workstation upgrade running Windows 7 So another year gone and our workstations running Windows 7 are somewhat lagging when opening too many apps. The recent release of Windows 8 has led to a review of our developer's equipment and the verdict is...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: IT Support
• Language: *

CharIndex Reverse - find occurrence starting from end of string in TSQLhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/charindex-reverse-find-occurrence-starting-from-end-of-string-in-tsql.html

28 January 2013 What? This is a quick note on finding the last occurrence of a string in a longer string. This has to be in Transact SQL for a SQL Server instance only and not filtered by other code. Why? I have a string such as the following (column positions added...

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

Cheat Sheet for mySQL vs t-SQLhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/cheat-sheet-for-mysql-vs-t-sql.html

31 January 2013 Some memory aids for me so that I don't have to keep looking them up: MySQL T-SQL Strings String Replace REPLACE(haystack,needle,replacement) REPLACE(haystack,needle,replacement) String Position INSTR(haystack, needle) LOCATE(needle, haystack [,...

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

Access MySQL databases using Oracle SQL Developerhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/access-mysql-databases-using-oracle-sql-developer.html

01 February 2013 What? So this is a quick article on how to install the mySQL add-on for Oracle SQL Developer v3.0.04. Why? I've used various mySQL administration tools to manage mySQL databases over the years, all freeware until someone expresses an interest in using...

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

Quickly update all content in mySQL database replacing a stringhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/quickly-update-all-content-replacing-a-string.html

03 February 2013 What? This is an article on how to replace a string with another in all your joomla articles without modifying other data such as modified date and author. Why? I used to have a third-party plugin that would replace my HTML tags with . Not I want to...

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

Export/Import Database using MySQL Workbenchhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/export-import-database-using-mysql-workbench.html

05 February 2013 What? This article isn't unique as there are other tutorials out there. This is meant to detail a process to export a database using MySQL Workbench and then to import it into another database. Why? If you're confined to use this product then this is...

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

Preg_Replace all strings between two tagshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/preg-replace-all-strings-between-two-tags.html

07 February 2013 What? For those of you who use Preg_Replace. Preg_replace is a function that uses regular expressions to search and replace a string. Why? Because my understanding with regular expressions is shady and varies from language to language, I've written this...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: *

Administrator Program Shortcut without Prompthttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/administrator-program-shortcut-without-prompt.html

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: *

Fix Oracle Tnsping 3511 without Windows Registryhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/fix-oracle-tnsping-3511-without-windows-registry.html

04 March 2013 Applies to: - MS Windows 7 Enterprise What? So I can ping the server the Oracle 11g database sits on. I've installed the Oracle 11g client tools and can connect using sqlplus. But if I tnsping any oracle database, I get something along the lines of:...

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

Restore MSSQL Error: Database is in usehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/restore-mssql-error-database-is-in-use.html

08 March 2013 What? This is an article on how to do a restore from backup on a database but when you get the error: "... database is in use". -- SQL Server 2005 EXEC SP_WHO // details on who is logged in GO -- SQL Server 2008 EXEC SP_WHO2 // even more details GO --...

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

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

14 March 2013 What? Please note: the following article is not a solution but a page of various methods and date conversions which I try and use depending on the situation. This is a quick article on how I got time conversion working in an SSIS package which read from...

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

Country Lookup by IP address CSVhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/country-lookup-by-ip-address.html

17 March 2013 What? So this is an article to serve as documentation for one of the data sources available to download for FREE from this site. Why? It's useful to have a CSV list of all the IP ranges and their allocated country. Our use here was to create a...

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

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

30 March 2013 What? A quick 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...

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

Docman - Uploaded a document and can't see ithttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/docman-uploaded-a-document-and-cant-see-it.html

29 June 2009 As with all Joomla articles and files, you need to check that they have been published and approved. Sometimes you don't have to and it's all automatic, but if they're not showing: Check that they're in the right section and category Check that they...

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