I’ve decided to put together this blog post as a beginner’s guide to dealing with an inherited SQL server environment. You should read this if you’re going to be put in charge of the SQL servers in your company, for example if you’ve just been hired as the new DBA…
Lately I had a lot of issues with converting three server core systems to a full GUI version of the Windows Server 2012 R2. I have tried following stuff the would not work for me with the following error message (The source files could not be found. Use the “Source” option…
If you are like me you probably love to download various stuff from the internet and then over time when you have a lot of files in the downloads folder it is slow to load, or when you want to sort by date for example it takes forever or never…
For our company communication with our clients we are using ticketing system Zendesk. I must say zendesk is a great solution that is very modern and fast, it comes for the with the integrated chat and phone as well. We were looking for a solution where we will have a ticketing…
I am proud to be a part of a three-day community-driven conference in Zagreb with the most influential experts from all around the world to discuss the latest news regarding Microsoft technologies that is organized by a company I work for. Topics vary from novelties in Office 365, Azure, SharePoint,…
Remote Desktop Services is a virtualization platform for providing end users with secure remote desktop access, to published applications and remote desktops. Remote Desktop Services offer various deployment options, such as on-premises (Windows Server 2016) or cloud-based (Microsoft Azure). Virtualization can be session-based, meaning Windows Server host will provide resources…
I’m going to use this blog post to name 5 SQL Server security best practices that should be your top priority in keeping your SQL Server environment safe. You are, maybe, a newbie DBA who is looking for the best practices in maintaining a SQL server environment or you are…
In this blog post, I would like to discuss the most important SQL Server best practices. I thought I might start off with 10 best practices I reckon would be any DBA’s most important maintenance best practices. And these are only the basics. I’m not an SQL expert like many…
I was getting this issue on a brand new freshly installed and patched windows server, where I wanted to install SQL 2016 where KB2919355 is prerequisite. If you are fast like me and only searching for download files on the Microsoft support web page then you missed this text: When you…
CryptoLocker and its variants are ransomware viruses that re-appeared in 2013. We were attacked by the CryptoLocker virus, and decided to implement a new policy that would outsmart the cryptolocker virus. Find out what we did.