This AWS RDS tutorial will show you how to set up MS SQL Server on AWS RDS. Amazon RDS is a cloud database that AWS manage all underlying servers for you. You will first see how to set up SQL Server on RDS. Next you will see how to access your SQL server from RDS.
If you need help on installing a server to connect to your SQL box from please see the tutorials below that may help:
How to set up server 2019 on AWS
How to install SSMS on windows
This windows server tutorial will show you how to add a new user to your windows server. in this tutorial we are using windows server 2019 but this should work on most other versions of windows sever including windows server 2016. You will first create a new user and set their password. Next you will add the user to the the administrator groups. Finally you will log in as that user
This video will show you how to set up AWS backup. In this video you will see how to backup an EC2 instance on a schedule using AWS backup. You will see how to access AWS backup in the AWS console. You will then create a daily backup plan with a 35 retention period. You will then add a EC2 instance to this backup plan.
As Sys admins we are often tasks with working on multiple and disparate systems we need to know a little about everything to allow use to do our jobs effectively. This post will detail my top five MySQL commands to know – with one bonus command! The commands are:
If you want to see these commands in action check out the youtube video here:
Also be sure to download the cheetsheet here which you can save and print out:
This Ubuntu Linux AWS tutorial will show you how to install Ubuntu on AWS. First you will open EC2 and search for the Ubuntu AMI. You will then step through the wizard to configure connectivity options ensuring that the Ubuntu server has a public IP allowing you to access. You will then generate a key to access your server. Next you will convert that key from pem to ppk using puttygen. Finally you will connect to your Ubuntu instance on AWS using putty Putty & Puttygen are available from:
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Recently on YouTube I was asked to put together some of the best resources for learning CentOS.
I’ve gathered my top 5 resources below:
The Video below shows me discussing these options
The video will show you how to set up a billing alert on AWS. We will do this by setting the alarm in AWS CloudWatch. To begin you will need to:
A full video tutorial can be seen here:
This video will show you how to install MariaDB Server on CentOS 8.
MariaDB is a free and opensource database engine.
The commands that you need to follow this tutorial are:
This virtualbox tutorial will show you how to install Virtual box Guest additions on CentOs 8.
When this process is done you will be able to make CentOS 8 full screen in Virtual box, so in affect the video shows how to make Centos 8 full screen in Virtual box.
The command that i run to download the relevant packages are:
sudo yum install tar bzip2 kernel-headers perl gcc make elfutils-libelf-devel
This Video will show you how to resolve the error: UnCaught Error Call to undefined json_decode
I got this issue while installing moodle on CentOS 8.
To bypass this error I ran;
sudo yum install php_json