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I use MySQL Workbench a fair bit with Azure hosted MySQL databases. and various other MySQL servers. To make life easier I often save the passwords for non sensitive systems to the MySQL Workbench password vault. I recently hit a …
I work in the hospitality industry where it is common to still find serial receipt printers. In this post I will cover how you can perform as basic test print from the windows command prompt, without the need for any …
I recently decided it was time to upgrade some WordPress sites I have hosting as Azure App Services sites from the now deprecated PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.1 or 8.2. However, I immediately hit an issue with permalinks (page slugs) …
In this post we are going to cover how to declare, set the value and use a variable in a Microsoft SQL. What is a variable? Before we get into how to use them, it is best if we define …
I mistakenly created a Teams Channel as a standard channel when I needed it to be a private channel. At the time of writing Microsoft do not let you convert a channel form one type to another. No worries I …
I think we can all agree that backups are only a good thing, they form the bread and butter of any IT administrators’ tasks. In this post I will cover how to export and import an Azure Data Factory Pipeline …
In this post I will cover how to setup a Laravel Valet development environment on MacOS. At the end of this post, we will have performed a basic setup of Laravel Valet and created a new Laravel site that we …
I recently opened Microsoft Visual Studio for the first time in a long while and attempted to clone a repo from an Azure Dev Ops. Only to be greeted by the message. Git failed with a fatal error “Authentication failed” …
Have you ever attempted to alter the design on a Microsoft SQL table using the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) tool. Maybe, to add an additional column, or change an existing columns data type, only to be greeted by …
When it comes to securing your outgoing email domains from those who want to impersonate you or your business. There are various technologies you can implement to add protection and build customer trust. In this post we will cover SFP, …