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When a file is saved with BOM (byte-order mark) on a Mac or Linux machine Windows PowerShell cannot execute the script. Unfortunately the “cat” command does not show the byte-order mark at the beginning of the file. Some editors show a question mark at the beginning of the file. I have discovered it when I …
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Some sites do not load properly when old cached data is stored in the web browser. To clear the cached images, cookies and other site related data for one specific site in Chrome We didn’t use the developer tools, but to be able to see the options on the refresh icon we need the tools …
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To find queries that block others in Microsoft SQL databases, execute This returns the list of active sessions and indicates what session blocked it. To get the query of a session, execute
When a database is migrated to another server by copying the database file or restoring it from a backup file, the original database user account references are also carried with it. Those accounts contain the account IDs specific to the original database server. To provide access to the restored database on the new database server …
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When the Chef aws cookbook’s ebs_volume.rb resource tries to bring a volume online, partition, and format it we get the error message: RuntimeError: Volume vol-… attached at xvdf but does not conform to this resource’s specificationsC:/chef/cache/cookbooks/aws/resources/ebs_volume.rb:46:in `block in class_from_file’ Make sure the “size” attribute value in the aws_ebs_volume resource call matches the actual size of …
When we tried to install the Microsoft Access Database Engine and Office 2007 System Driver on a Windows Server 2016 an error message popped up immediately: The installation of this package failed When we ran the installation with the logging option, we have found a message at the bottom of the file: Will create the …
Older PowerShell versions do not use TLS1.2 as the default version during the SSL handshake. When the API requires TLS1.2 the error message appears: Invoke-WebRequest : The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel. To force PowerShell to use TLS1.2 during the SSL handshake, issue this command before executing the Invoke-Webrequest
When the Linux disk drive is full, first we need to identify the reason for the drive overuse. Many times the drive is filled with one large log file, that can be identified and truncated. To list the directory sizes under the current directory execute To empty a file, overwrite it with nothing, so the …
To be able to fully control the routing of a DNS name use Route 53 Create a new Hosted Zone In the Route 53 console click the Create Hosted Zone button Create a new public Hosted Zone Return to the domain registrars website and set the name servers to use the AWS Route 53 hosted …
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Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rename ‘C:\Users\MY_USERNAME\.config\configstore\update-notifier-nodemon.json.3604946166’ -> ‘C:\Users\MY_USERNAME\.config\configstore\update-notifier-nodemon.json’ In case of this error rename the C:\Users\MY_USERNAME\.config\configstore\update-notifier-nodemon.json to update-notifier-nodemon.json.ORIGINAL to allow NPM to use the file name as the target of a rename operation.