Practical, hands-on guides from our database, cloud and software teams — the same kind of write-ups we lean on internally, shared for anyone running these platforms themselves.
Complete Guide: Setting Up Ubuntu 22.04 for Docker-Based Application Deployment Running modern applications efficiently requires a solid, production-ready environment. In this guide, we walk through how to prepare an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS server for running containerized applications using Docker, along with essential tools like Node.js, npm, pnpm, and PostgreSQL. This setup is ideal for SaaS
Read article ›Azure CLI Not Recognized in PowerShell? Here’s How to Fix It on Windows If you run this command in PowerShell: az –version and get this error: az : The term 'az' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. don’t panic. This usually means one of two things:
Read article ›How to Install Docker Desktop on a Windows Computer — Plus How to Check Whether an Azure Windows 10 VM Supports It Docker Desktop is one of the fastest ways to get a modern container development environment running on Windows. On a physical Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC, the setup is usually straightforward. On
Read article ›How to Find Which Application Is Using a Port on a Windows When you are troubleshooting a Node.js app, React frontend, backend API, Docker container, or any local development service on Windows, one common problem is discovering that a required port is already in use. If your application needs port 3002 and Windows says the
Read article ›SQL Server 2025 vs SQL Server 2019: What’s New and Why It Matters A lot of businesses are still running SQL Server 2019 quite happily. It was a strong release: better performance, better recovery, better security, and a big push into data virtualization and big-data workloads. But SQL Server 2025 is a very different kind
Read article ›How to Enable TDE on SQL Server 2019 Standard with Always On Availability Groups for Selected Databases Protecting sensitive business data at rest is now a core requirement for many organisations. For SQL Server environments running critical production workloads, Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is one of the most effective built-in security features for encrypting database
Read article ›How to Find the Last SQL for INACTIVE Sessions in Oracle 10g (Practical DBA Guide) When an Oracle database hits connection pressure (for example ORA-00020: maximum number of processes exceeded), DBAs usually see a sea of sessions — many of them INACTIVE. The next question is always: “What SQL were these sessions running?” In Oracle
Read article ›New Microsoft 365 Domain Can Send Email but Can’t Receive? Here’s the Fix (Step-by-Step) You’ve just purchased a new domain (e.g., abc.com), set up a brand-new Microsoft 365 (Office 365) subscription, and created a mailbox like aa@abc.com. Outgoing email works perfectly — but incoming email never arrives. This is one of the most common “new
Read article ›Secure Ways to RDP into an AWS EC2 Instance When You Only Have Switch-Role Console Access If you’ve been granted AWS Management Console access via “Switch Role” (common for external DBAs and support partners), you can usually see EC2 instances and Amazon RDS — but the next practical question is: How do I safely RDP
Read article ›Integrating IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition + Codex (OpenAI) A practical, step-by-step guide (plugins, setup options, and a solid workflow) If you’re an IntelliJ IDEA (Community Edition) person but you want Codex-style “agentic” help — refactors, bug fixes, test generation, and codebase Q&A — you’ve got a good path now: Codex is available inside JetBrains IDEs
Read article ›Integrating VS Code + Codex (OpenAI) A practical setup guide (extensions, install steps, and best-practice workflow) If you live in VS Code, Codex is one of the nicest ways to bring an “agentic” coding assistant into your daily workflow—so you can ask for changes, refactors, bug fixes, and explanations inside the editor, with Codex able
Read article ›How to Change the Ownership of a CIFS Mount Point on Linux When working with network-mounted storage on Linux, especially Azure Files or SMB/CIFS shares, administrators often notice something confusing: even after running chown, the mounted folder still shows as root:root. This happens because CIFS mount points do not behave like normal local Linux filesystems
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