A connection string is sometimes a bit obscure. Do I need ODBC or OLE DB? When you need one and Google for it, you often find old ones that either don’t work at all anymore, or are not optimal. This article provides you with a couple of example connection strings to connect ASP.NET and ASP to Microsoft SQL Server or MySQL.
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Whenever you need to test your ASP.NET connection to your MySQL database, using ODBC, you can use the following C# test script. Currently it uses MySQL ODBC 8.0 Unicode Driver, but you can easily change the version used. As a bonus it prints some connection information and it requires an SSL connection to your MySQL database (SslMode=REQUIRED).
Connect to MySQL from PHP PDO using an SSL encrypted connection
If you want to connect securely to your MySQL database over SSL using PHP Data Objects (PDO), here is how…
Continue readingWith PHP 7.1, some PHP web applications fail because of deprecated code usage. This may result in an error message like [] operator not supported for strings for various Joomla!, WordPress and Drupal components. Here’s how to fix this code for PHP 7.1+.
Compressed SQL Server backups can be verified in PowerShell using a handy PowerShell function. This comes in handy when you need to verify if existing SQL Server backups are compressed.
Continue readingIdeal for Windows Server Core or Nano: Detect the ethernet network speed using PowerShell or WMI is ideal for Windows Server Core or Nano. If you ever need to lookup the speed of your ethernet network card in Windows on the command-line, use one of the following WMIC commands on your PowerShell prompt:
Continue readingYou sometimes need to list and get all MAC addresses of all Hyper-V virtual machines in your network. Either for your Hyper-V administration or provisioning if you don’t set an unique MAC address automatically. Here is how to get all those MAC addresses easily with PowerShell.
Continue readingAyo Olubeko of the SQL Server Blog writes in the SQL PowerShell: July 2016 update. The July update for SSMS includes the first substantial improvement in SQL PowerShell in many years. We owe a lot of thanks for this effort to the great collaboration with our community. We have several new CMDLETs to share with you, but firstly, there is a very important change we had to make to be able to ship monthly updates to the SQL PowerShell component.
Here’s a blacklist check script written in PowerShell. You can use this to lookup an IP address in various blacklists (DNSBL, RBL). Such a check is a great indicator for an IP address’ reputation. Basically this PowerShell blacklist checker is a port of my Bash script to check an IP address blacklist status in Linux.
Continue readingEver wanted to know the current number of active FTP client connections on your Windows Server FTP Service? You can get this statistic using PowerShell, the Get-Counter cmdlet and the Microsoft FTP Service Current NonAnonymous Users performance counter.
Here’s a PowerShell script, by Microsoft’s Dave Browne, to install SQL Server Express Edition and restore a database from a command line. It’s intended to be used as part of an installation script for an application that needs a local SQL Express instance. But it also demonstrates several SQL Server and Powershell interop features like handling InfoMessages from the server, dealing with resultsets, embedding TSQL commands with Powershell Here Strings.
Just stumbled upon the Threads in C# blogpost on CsharpStar. The post gives a nice introduction into what threads in the .NET Framework are, and how to use .NET Thread Class (System.Threading.Thread namespace) for multi-threading, foreground- and background threads and so on.
Does Magento 2 throw an error about always_populate_raw_post_data being set to 0? And are you having problems installing or updating Magento with PHP 5.6 and PHP 7? Then read on, because here is how to fix upgrades to Magento 2.0 in PHP 5.6 and higher: PHP 7+.
Here is how you can verify whether an external command in PowerShell was executed successfully or not by its errorlevel. Simply by verifying PowerShell’s return value, or exit code…
Continue readingRetrieve the Hyper-V virtual machine’s serial number with PowerShell. Sometimes you need to have the serial number of a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM, or guest). We, for instance, use this serial number in our automatic, unattended deployment of the guest operating system. But then you need to know how to find this serial number…
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