How to Completely Uninstall Microsoft SQL Server?

In this article, we’re going to look at a number of ways that you can uninstall a Microsoft SQL Server instance on a Windows computer. This article applies to all supported versions: Microsoft SQL Server 2019/2017/2014/2012.

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Adding a New Disk Drive to a Linux Machine

In this article, we will look at how to attach an additional hard disk to an existing Linux machine: create a partition table, format, and mount the partition with fstab. An Ubuntu virtual machine running on a VMware ESXi host is used in this example.

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How to Use Netcat (nc) Command with Examples?

Netcat (or nc) is a classic Unix networking tool that allows you to make TCP and UDP connections, receive and send data, check open ports on a remote computer, test firewall rules, etc. In this article, we will look at some typical examples of using the netcat CLI tool.

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