Stories of daily programming
In order to share file in a secure way, I needed to configure an SFTP server on a Windows Server machine (don’t confuse with FTPS!). Since Windows doesn’t come with an SFTP server by default, you have to install a software to do that. To do the job, I choose “Bitvise SSH Server” which I like…
During the creation of a scheduled task using the task scheduler of Windows Server 2008 R2, I got the following error: Error has occurred for task ‘TaskName’. Error message: User account restriction error. The possible reasons are that blank passwords not allowed, or that a policy restriction has been enforced. and I couldn’t save the…
In one of my ASP.NET applications, I was developing a page to extract some data to an xlsx file, and for this purpose I was using the library NPOI. Using Excel to open the xlsx file created by the application, I obtained different results depending on the server where the application was deployed: using some servers…
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As most of you know, an xlsx file is actually a zip archive containing some xml files. If you change the extension of the file from “xlsx” to “zip”, you can extract the content using a software like 7-Zip. Once extracted the content of the file, you can make some modification and zip to get…
Sometimes is useful to check how a certain query or a stored procedure behaves without cached data, so in this post I will show you how to reset SQL Server cache. To do the job, simply run these statements from SQL Management Studio: CHECKPOINT GO DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS GO DBCC FREEPROCCACHE GO
I was deploying an MVC5 application on a web space of the italian provider Aruba. After launching the application I obtained the following error: Server Error in ‘/’ Application. Security Exception Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission please contact your…
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During the installation of Sql Server 2016 on a brand new server running Windows Server 2016, in the prerequisites checking phase I obtained the following error: “Oracle JRE 7 Update 51 (64-Bit) or higher is required for Polybase”. I solved the problem installing the following version of Java: Java SE Development Kit 7u79 available at…
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During the porting of an application from MySql to MariaDB, I found another curious fact: I get a different ORDER BY behaviour between MySql And MariaDB. Look at this query: SELECT DISTINCT Z.ID FROM ( SELECT Field1, Field2, Field3…. FROM Table1 ORD INNER JOIN Table2 OC ON ORD.OrderCopID = OC.ID LEFT JOIN Table3 NEG ON…
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Hello everyone, another day, another error…. I was migrating a MySql database from one server to a new server. In the new server, calling one of the stored procedures of the database from the phpMyAdmin interface I obtained the following error: #2014 – Commands out of sync; you can’t run this command now Two were…
I want to start this new blog talking about a problem I faced few days ago, working with a web application developed using PHP and MySql. Using the application users experienced unexplained and random slowdowns in the production environment running on a dedicated server of the italian provider Aruba. The same application with the same database…