SQL is a programming language designed to efficiently manage structured data – most commonly for web applications. When you first install SQL Server (for Windows, in this case), you automatically create an SQL instance. This is known as the default instance. Think of this as your main SQL service application running on your server. The default...

You may receive the following error message in Microsoft Access:   Microsoft Office Access can’t open the table in Datasheet view.   The Connect property of the table does not have enough information about the File DSN or the connection properties.  You may also receive the following error if you try to call an ODBC  [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Timeout expired (#o)   First,...

A Service Principal Name (SPN) is a unique name identifier for a service instance. Similarly, think of an SPN like a DNS CNAME record. An SPN is a pointer to a domain account. It is an identifier to get to a listening process. For example: COOL/Service1 is an alias for domain account RBAC.LOC\MyAccountCOOL/Service2 is also an alias...

If you own domain names, you may want to transfer them for different reasons including better pricing with a different registrar, transferring domain name ownership, or transferring to get better hosting options with another registrar. In any case, transferring a domain name is a common and straightforward procedure. This guide will assume you are transferring a...

Deleting Microsoft Windows cached folders can help troubleshoot applications randomly quitting and diagnose performance issues. You can delete files using Windows Command line using the del switch command. Using command line to delete the files saves on time and can happen “silently” so as not to disturb users working in Windows.  Run the following commands in command line...