We’ve all been there. Someone walks up and asks, “Is SQL Server having issues?” What’s your first move?For me, it starts with the SQL Server Error log. I zero in on the timeframe the requester mentioned and begin my investigation.Quick Review via SSMSFor a fast, no frills check:Connect to the server using SSMS.Navigate to the appropriate error log.Scroll through the log records to spot anything unusual.The manual review can be surprisingly effective for simple reviews, but sometimes you will need to dig deeper.Filtering the Error LogLet’s say a user reports that the database stops responding at 7:00 PM every day.…
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One of the nice things about Markdown is that you can just… put HTML in there too. There is no Markdown shortcut for a , but you can just use a . That means you can use use as well, bringing the world of Web Components into your writing and creating of content. Deane Barker writes: What if you want a Markdown-friendly way to represent a feedback form, or a tabbed UI, or a mortgage calculator, or something else way beyond the scope of text formatting. For these situations, what you really want is to put a token or a…
In the beginning, there was OLTP – Online Transaction Processing. Fast, reliable, and ruthlessly efficient, OLTP systems were the workhorses of enterprise data. They handled the daily grind: purchases, logins, inventory updates, and all the transactional minutiae that kept businesses humming. But as data grew and curiosity bloomed, a new hunger emerged – not just for transactions, but for understanding. Enter analytics.Yet, for years, these two worlds, OLTP and analytics, lived in awkward silos. OLTP was the sprinter, optimized for speed and precision. Analytics was the marathoner, built for depth and endurance. Trying to run both on the same track…
Speed is the currency of modern development, but security often pays the price. As teams push code faster than ever, traditional security methods can’t keep up. That’s where vulnerability scanning, done right, becomes essential. Not just as a checkbox, but as a real enabler of secure, continuous delivery. In this blog, we will discuss what actually makes scanning effective in today’s rapid-fire CI/CD pipelines and why most teams still get it wrong. Why Traditional Scanning Methods Fall Short in CI/CD Traditional vulnerability scanning was never built for DevSecOps. It’s reactive, slow and often disconnected from the pace of modern software delivery. You run a…
As a Linux user, you may eventually run into a situation where your root partition (/) runs out of space, which can cause errors, prevent software installation, or even stop your system from functioning properly. Expanding the root partition may sound tricky, especially for beginners, but with a bit of guidance and patience, it’s absolutely doable, as explained in this article. Understanding the Root Partition The root partition (/) is where your Linux operating system resides and contains all the system files, installed applications, configuration settings, and sometimes user data if /home isn’t on a separate partition. The root partition…
JFrog at its annual swampUP conference unfurled a DevOps platform, dubbed JFrog Fly, designed to enable application developers to more easily integrate artificial intelligence (AI) agents within workflows at scale.Via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) developed by Anthropic, JFrog Fly is designed to integrate with multiple AI repos and platforms such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Claude Code to enable DevOps teams to centrally manage the storing, sharing and serving of software components using semantic metadata to optimize deployments of releases in a way that is also integrated with package managers and GitHub repositories.Additionally, JFrog revealed it has developed a…
Hush Security today emerged from stealth to provide an alternative approach to protecting application secrets using a platform that is designed to continuously discover them and then apply access controls based on policies defined by an IT team.Fresh off raising $11 million in funding, company CEO Micha Rave said the Hush Security platform eliminates the need to rely on legacy vaults and secrets managers that were not designed to meet the requirements of modern application environments based on microservices that need to dynamically access secrets.Rather than incur the latency overhead created by accessing secrets stored in a vault, Rave said…
How developers are embedding runtime security to safely build with AI agents Introduction: When AI Workflows Become Attack Surfaces The AI tools we use today are powerful, but also unpredictable and exploitable. You prompt an LLM and it generates a Dockerfile. It looks correct. A shell script? Reasonable. You run it in dev. Then something breaks: a volume is deleted. A credential leaks into a log. An outbound request hits a production API. Nothing in your CI pipeline flagged it, because the risk only became real at runtime. This is the new reality of AI-native development: fast-moving code, uncertain behavior,…
Want to play Windows games on your Linux system but not sure where to begin? Heard that some Linux distros are better optimized for gaming but don’t know which ones to pick? Don’t worry, here’s a guide to the five best Linux distros that make running Windows games smooth and hassle-free. The good news is that gaming on Linux has improved dramatically in recent years. Besides the many native Linux titles already available, you can also play a huge selection of Windows-only games using compatibility tools like Proton (built into Steam) and Wine. In fact, nearly 80% of the most…
I’ve been around this space long enough to remember when any attempt to wedge something between “Dev” and “Ops” would set my teeth on edge. There was only DevOps — pure and simple. The term represented a cultural and technical shift in how we build and run software. Adding extra syllables in the middle felt like watering it down.But at JFrog’s swampUp conference this week, I was reminded that sometimes the middle matters. The new variant I heard about — DevGovOps — isn’t just another buzzword grafted onto the DevOps family tree. It struck me as something worth paying attention…