MSSQL: How To Get Database Out of Single User

The SQL Server Single User Mode only permits one connection to a database at a time. Great for testing, but not for deployment. Here is how you can get it out of this state. Open the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Start a new SQL query and enter the code...

MSSQL: How to Get Database Out of “Restoring” State

When you backup a database and then later try to restore it, you might get a message that the database is in a restoring state. Here is how you can fix this. Open the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Start a new SQL query and enter the code below with the...

Installing WordPress from the Command Line

How to install WordPress from the command line in Linux. Installing WordPress on a web server is normally done by downloading the files from wordpress.com and copying the uncompressed files to your web site folder with an FTP or SSH client. You can also install the...

How To Fix An Endless Adobe Validating Software License Screen

I really enjoy errors in software that occur randomly for no reason. 🙂 One that recently occurred was an installed Adobe application (InDesign) that suddenly failed to start. Reinstalling the software didn’t help. Starting the application would run Adobe...

A Quick (Not Approved by Xerox) Way To Setup SSL On All uStores

When you have hundreds of stores in uStore, making updates on all of them takes a very long time. This doesn’t matter if your paid by the hour, but if your in a hurry and need everything updated quickly, the manual method is not the best solution. For your...

Common Task Scheduler Event IDs

Here is a list of the most common Event IDs in the History tab for Windows Scheduled Tasks. Event ID Description 100 Task Started 101 Task Start Failed 102 Task completed 103 Action start failed 106 Task registered 107 Task triggered on scheduler 108 Task triggered on...