My Bits and Bytes

I started my professional career in the era of MS-DOS (yes, those ugly black screens with white text). I have seen lots of technology transformations happening in this era. Here, I will be sharing my technology experiences.

After copying data from prod to test, usually site name also need to be changed. Following is the script. DECLARE @Severity int, @POldSite [dbo].[SiteType], @PNewSite [dbo].[SiteType], @RegenerateRowPointers [dbo].[ListYesNoType], @Infobar [dbo].[InfobarType], @Site [dbo].[SiteType] — Change XYZ to the name of your current Site IdSET @Site = ‘SITE-P’ EXECUTE @Severity = [dbo].[SetSiteSp] […]

CSI – Change Site name

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LoadWithPartialName [reflection.assembly]::loadwithpartialname(“Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo”) | out-null pipe with out-null to avoid output. New-Object $srv = New-Object (‘Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server’) pipe with gm (get member) sidebar: $a = dir $a will display directory now if we do $a | gm it will have properties for directory. Like move to, Extension, Encrypted etc. $srv = New-Object […]

SQL Server SMO in PowerShell

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Download GIT from https://git-scm.com/downloads To ensure GIT is installed on the machine type following on command prompt. It should show you version: GIT –version Set your Name and Email for GIT using following commands: git config –global user.name “YourName” git config –global user.email “youremail@somedomain.com” To verify the configuration, type git […]

Configuring GIT

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Creating a bucket in IAM: NOTE: IAM Screen for creating a new bucket has completely changed. Old Screen: Above options are not in new IAM interface. Configure Options: Old: New: Navigate inside a bucket Created 2 folders in the bucket Upload a file inside images folder: By default only owner […]

S3 Basics

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RDS = Relational Database Service What is a database? Non Relational Database DynamoDB (No SQL DB) Data Warehousing OLTP vs OLAP RedShift (Amazon’s OLAP) Elasticache Webservice that makes it easy to deploy, operate and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud. improves the performance of web-applications by retrieving data from […]

RDS Basics

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EC2 = ECC = Elastic Compute Cloud A web service that provides resize able compute capacity in the Cloud. It reduces time required to obtain and boot a new server instance to minutes, allowing scale capacity up or down based on changing requirements. >> Pay for capacity you use. Unlike […]

EC2 Basics

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