Block Special Characters from a Text Box Form Input
We want to keep users from entering special characters into our textbox input on or form. Ideally we want to not allow those characters to be entered at all, as opposed to let them enter the...
View ArticleUbuntu Mounting HTC One M8 SD Card
error: exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat' I added a 64 Gigabyte SDcard to my HTC One M8 phone and could not connect to add music or files. The issue is that...
View ArticleCFM Pages Not Working After Server IP Change
BlueOnyx JSP and Servlets, including ColdFusion, CFM, CFML, Railo templates do not run after changing the IP address of the site and server. CFM displays as text. Datacenter adjustments forced a...
View ArticleColdFusion CLIENT cookie issue
MSSQL error: The data types text and varchar are incompatible in the equal to operator. In the ColdFusion administrator under there is the option to save CLIENT variables as cookies, in the registry,...
View ArticleTrim characters off of right on a string
Trim characters off of right on a string. Trim off a certain number of characters on the right side of a string. Here's a quick easy method to cut off an exact number off the right portion without...
View ArticleGoogle Custom Search Results
Want to find out what Google has on your web site? Do you wish to tabulate a list of all the pages Google has searched and indexed? Here's how to document it! Caveat: you must have a google business...
View Articleconvert UTC date in Unix timestamp format
Converting a date in ColdFusion into a UNIX timestamp format is not straight forward if you don't know what the UNIX timestamp format is. Unix time is defined as the number of seconds that have...
View ArticleCTE with Recursion Example
Common Table Expressions with Recursion using WITH. A Common Table Expression is a temporary result set upon which we can work against. It's kind of like a sub query in memory that we can manipulate....
View Articlenot equal to null not working
In MSSQL, looking for rows that are not equal to a certain value does not return rows with null values. To retrieve all values that are not equal and are null, you have to add both clauses "not equal"...
View ArticleIntegers Only, Remove Dollar Signs and Periods
Looking to remove "$" and "." (dollar signs, commas and periods/decimal points) from numbers before inserting into a database, storing integers. This means decimals need to be rounded into an integer....
View ArticleBreaking Up a String into Equal Parts
Presented with a string of concatenated ID's, I had to break them up into a comma delimited list. These ID's were all stored in a database field concatenated in one long string with no breaks, tabs or...
View ArticleSelect Distinct and Return Multiple Columns
How does one select a distinct column value and still bring back all other associated columns for the distinct value? In this example we have repeated [Requisition_Number]s and wish to find distinct...
View ArticleCombining MSSQL Functions and Wildcards to Filter Data
We can combine SQL functions and use "LIKE" to filter data searching a string in a column. We are not using RegEx, just simple pattern matching. Here's our practical example. We are given a table...
View ArticleComputed Columns MS SQL
A table with a Totals column is a perfect use case for computed columns in MSSQL. Making the Totals column a computed column allows MSSQL to do all the preassigned math for me, eliminating the need to...
View ArticleMSSQL Change Text within Column
Needing to change or replace a text, a word or phrase, within a VARCHAR column is very easy using the replace function. This example changes every occurrence of the year "2018" with "2019". We are...
View Article
