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.
I’ll discuss my experience with upgrading from DirSync to Azure Active Directory Connect and how I ran into some issues after the installation was complete. I had a hard time figuring out why weren’t my settings automatically applied causing the server to suspend active synchronization. Here's how I managed to…
I have imagined this article to be some sort of outline of available solutions for SQL administrators. Now, in this blog post discusses various free solutions for detecting and inventorying Microsoft SQL Server instances. I've found a few, so check them out in the blog post!
It has been five years since we released SPDocKit. Our initial idea was to create a simple documentation tool for SharePoint admins. Since then, we have made a great deal of progress. We have improved and upgraded so many aspects of our tool, and on so many levels, that we…
Back in 2009, when Toni and I co-founded Acceleratio, Terminal Services Log was our first and most important application. Over the years, thousands of clients have used our software to monitor many more thousands of their servers across the globe. During that time, we have shipped many other products in the…
I am using Google Chrome as my primary browser for everyday tasks. What I like to do is this: So I open a lot of tabs and I restart computer let’s say twice a month or so… Chrome is then very very slow, takes a lot of the CPU and RAM.…