Using a HTML form and PHP to upload a filehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/using-a-html-form-and-php-to-upload-a-file.html

17 September 2009 Issue Basically you have a HTML form with an input field type of 'FILE' (ie. ) and want a PHP file to process this. This example applies to a Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) environment. The Solution 1. The first thing to do is check that your HTML form...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: en-GB

Report Builder 2.0 - Hide Series1http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/report-builder-20-hide-series1.html

06 May 2010 Series1 is the data series from an outer join where the joining index value is null. The chart below has 3 series or data fields: Count the total number of incidents logged (Y-axis - data fields) Invidividual the incident(s) are assigned to (Labels -...

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

Crystal Reports: Exporting to Excel omits column headershttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/crystal-reports-exporting-to-excel-omits-column-headers.html

03 June 2010 to it working: Checked all headings text boxes are aligned to one gridline and they're the same height. Checked all data field text boxes are aligned and the same width as their respective column heading. Remove any ruler gridlines that don't truly...

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

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

30 January 2011 Cross your fingers and use your DB management tool to run the SQL file (or copy the contents of the SQL file into the input field) Re-build/Auto-correct some Joomla inconsistencies Login to your Joomla Admin Panel using a System Administrator account...

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

URL passed settings in Reporting Serviceshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/url-passed-settings-in-reporting-services.html

11 February 2011 Customize the Toolbar (Advanced) To enter custom code for a report, view the report properties, the first field in Report Builder or Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) is "Code". Click on the browse button next to it to edit. Visit...

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

Room Availability Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studiohttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/room-availability-calendar-in-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

23 March 2011 there. Adding Events Again I've put two rooms as examples in the above script. The "Events" table needs as a minimum the 4 fields "Room", "EventStart", "EventFinish", and "Status" ("Tooltip" was for me so that when the user hovers the mouse over the...

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

Basic Webpage Controls with JavaScript / COMhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/basic-webpage-controls-with-javascript-com.html

05 July 2011 COM_Invoke(pwb, "document.getElementsByTagName[input].item[11].click") Set Value of an Input Field - value Sets the value of the Search for Keywords Input Box: Code: javascript: document.all.search_keywords.value = 'Input Value'; void 0...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AutoHotkey
• Language: *

SSRS Querying on either of 2 Parametershttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-querying-on-either-of-2-parameters.html

19 July 2011 Values – Specify values" to =IIF(LTrim(Parameters!StudentADAccount.Value)="", Parameters!StudentReference.Value, First(Fields!S_STUDENTREFERENCE.Value, "StudentDetails")) should work: Apparently not because "fields cannot be used in report parameter...

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

SSRS Parameters in Oracle Stored Procedurehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-parameters-in-oracle-stored-procedure.html

02 September 2011 with our stored procedure is Oracle 10g. The Stored Procedure Rather than a returned dataset, our Stored Procedure updates a field in one of our Oracle tables and returns nothing. It accepts 3 parameters: The StudentID (reference) varchar2, Username...

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

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

07 November 2011 Report passes parameter to dataset which gets formatted by the database Report retrieves (select) formatted parameter as a field value to use Report loads with changes based on returned value. The Gist Add database level parameter check Add IIF in SSRS...

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

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

02 January 2012 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 converted to...

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

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

08 October 2012 I have a PHP script which behaves like PhpMyAdmin, in that it automatically lists a database structure and the fields to modify similar to an excel spreadsheet. Now without using PHP, I need standalone SQL scripts that can simply be used to search an...

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

DataTumble - Randomize Data Rowshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/datatumble-randomize-data-rows.html

07 December 2012 WHERE ID = @ChosenID SELECT @UpdateData = Data FROM #Scramble WHERE ID = @ChosenId -- To dynamically update the Data in the field being scrambled SET @UpdateSqlStatement = ' UPDATE ' + @TableName + ' SET ' + @ColumnName + ' = @UpdateDataIn WHERE CURRENT...

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

JDatabase: using the Joomla database with exampleshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/jdatabase-using-the-joomla-database.html

27 January 2013 = $db->query(); for Joomla 1.5.x Basic Query - 1 result $db = JFactory::getDBO(); $query = " SELECT ".$db->nameQuote('field_name')." FROM ".$db->nameQuote('#__my_table')." WHERE ".$db->nameQuote('some_name')." = ".$db->quote($some_value);...

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

SSIS Skip Blank Rows in Flat File Sourcehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-skip-blank-rows-in-flat-file-source.html

23 April 2013 are being inserted, simply extract the entire row as a column and trim it. I separate out the first column as my index/key field so I can check if this is a valid data row (the blank ones may return special chars rather than Null). My example here is...

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

T-SQL Conversion failed when converting the varchar to data type inthttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-conversion-failed-when-converting-the-varchar-to-data-type-int.html

14 May 2013 string together; then remembers it's a Microsoft by-product and realises it can't. Solved by checking the datatypes for each field in the concatenation string: LTRIM(RTRIM(rm.Name + ', ' + rm.[Zone] + ', ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(4), rm.[Capacity]) + ', ' +...

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

T-SQL concatenate an incremental row numberhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-concatenate-an-incremental-row-number.html

24 May 2013 This is a quick article on how to use a counter added to the end of a field column of data. Eh. What? Assume the following two tables exist: TABLE: Employee -------------------------------------------------- ID FirstName Surname 1 Joel Lipman 2 Another...

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

ReCaptcha disappears from Joomla 2.5 Registrationhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/recaptcha-disappears-from-joomla-2-5-registration.html

24 November 2013 3. and replace with: // Replace YOUR_KEY with your public key return ' window.onload = function() { Recaptcha.focus_response_field(); } '; } Additional This applies to a case where the code WAS working and without any changes to the server (no updates),...

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

T-SQL: Parse an XML valuehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-parse-an-xml-value.html

27 March 2014 attribute "financialyear" of CURRENT_EMPLOYEE (eg. "2014") In a WHERE clause To select records matching a value for the XML field: SELECT * FROM [dbo].[XML_EVENTS] WHERE CAST(Event_XML AS XML).value('(/STAFF/GENDER="MALE")[1]','VARCHAR(10)')='TRUE' AS...

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

XML Schema Referencehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/xml-schema-reference.html

13 August 2014 (must go inside annotation) element Defines an element extension Extends an existing simpleType or complexType element field Specifies an XPath expression that specifies the value used to define an identity constraint group Defines a group of elements...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Extensible Markup Language
• Language: en-GB