Safeguarding personally identifiable information (PII) in the government's possession and preventing incidents and breaches are essential to...
New-Item can create new things on any PowerShell drive, including the function: drive that holds all PowerShell functions. If you’d like, you...
Tuning database performance comprises a major part of a DBA’s responsibilities. The usefulness of the most informative database filled with...
Database professionals are usually strapped for time. It’s part of the job in most cases. Multi-platform database environments are the norm in...
In the previous parts, we created the Test-Password function that can test user account passwords for both local and remote user accounts. In our...
Managing a large number of SQL Server agent jobs across a large enterprise environment can be difficult and frustrating. Database administrators are...
Being in the computer industry is one of the most challenging things anyone can get into. When upgrading one’s knowledge to keep the data...
Providing security for their systems is one of the main concerns of IT professionals and corporate management everywhere. Worrying about security...
In the previous tip we showed how PowerShell can validate and test user account passwords, however the password was requested in plain text....
The term big data is familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in the world of information technology (IT). Big data is not a new concept....
Join us at our fourth annual virtual conference, IDERA Live 2020: How to Overcome Rapidly Evolving Database Challenges, designed to educate and...
A service level agreement (SLA) is a document that defines the level of service that a customer expects from an IT vendor or supplier. It is...
PowerShell can test user account passwords for you. This works both for local and domain accounts. Here is a sample function called Test-Password:...
There are several examples where data theft has brought organizations to a halt or resulted in a bad press that will leave a tarnished image. For...
Windows operating systems can be uniquely identified by a so-called 4K-Hash: this is a special hash string that is 4000 bytes in size. You can use...
SQL Server database administration is difficult; queries and indexes require tuning in response to application changes. For many database...
We are excited to announce the release of SQL Compliance Manager 5.8. SQL Compliance Manager is the industry leading SQL Server auditing solution...
We are pleased to announce the release of Precise 10.2, the company’s application performance monitoring platform. This latest release...
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If your laptop battery is going low too soon, or you’d like to investigate related issues, there is a simple way to generate an extensive...
The tremendous popularity of the open-source relational database solution known as MySQL shows no signs of slowing down. As of June 2020, the only...
Today, organizations are about data. Database systems and the elements they store are arguably the most valuable assets in any given enterprise. Not...
The PowerShell Gallery provides easy access to additional PowerShell commands. For example, you can download and install the command extension for...
The executable process that is the SQL Server Database Engine is called the Database Engine service. The Database Engine service is an executable...