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Data First Drupal Development
Data First Drupal DevelopmentThis post describes by example, a very efficient Drupal implementation methodology that involves first generating the expected data for your system then only using Drupal...
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Stop Spam By Disabling Drupal Visitor Registrations
Stop Spam By Disabling Drupal Visitor RegistrationsFor sites that do not need to have user registrations. The most effective way to prevent registration spam is to disable visitor registrations. If you...
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External Database Views As Drupal Views
External Database Views As Drupal ViewsThis is a followup post to a post where I showed how you can use VDC to display data from an external database table in a Drupal View. In this post I display an...
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Defining Drill Downs in Drupal Views
Defining Drill Downs in Drupal ViewsThe logical way to analyse data is to start by looking at summarised data before looking at the detail. This is referred to as drilling down. In this post I...
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Conditional Formatting of Data In Drupal Views
Conditional Formatting of Data In Drupal ViewsA few years ago then Google CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted as saying, “There was 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through...
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Using SQL in Drupal Views Fields
Using SQL in Drupal Views FieldsSQL is a powerful data manipulation language (DML) that can be used to perform complex calculations and format data within your database. The Views Raw SQL module...
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Creating Drupal Charts on External Views Data
Creating Drupal Charts on External Views DataThis is a continuation of my series of posts on using Drupal as a data platform. In this post I show that you can create charts on data external to Drupal....
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Connecting phpMyAdmin to Amazon RDS
Connecting phpMyAdmin to Amazon RDSI wanted to try out Amazon Aurora RDS so I signed up for the free tier account. This post gives the steps I followed to configure phpMyAdmin running on a different...
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Drupal View on Steroids. Using a Cloud Database as View Data Source.
Drupal View on Steroids. Using a Cloud Database as View Data Source.Having already created Drupal views on external data, I felt the next step was to use a cloud database as the data source for a...
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Using the Information Schema to Generate Accurate SQL Statements
Using the Information Schema to Generate Accurate SQL StatementsThe information schema" is an ANSI standard set of read-only views which provide information about all of the tables, views, columns, and...
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