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Finally available! With the arrival of Season 4 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on American screens, Netflix has added the early seasons of the series to its Italian catalogue. If you haven’t yet followed the adventures of Agent Coulson and his team, now is the perfect time to catch up. A Marvel Universe Ready to Discover…
This isn’t a gaming hot-news site and I won’t report the release of Civilization VI as a front-page event. Here we talk about titles that leave something behind — or about aspects that make them special. And Civilization VI, released on 21 October 2016, has one aspect that absolutely deserves to be talked about: its…
Every year, coinciding with Milan’s Games Week, the major e-commerce platforms launch promotional campaigns dedicated to gaming. It’s one of the most anticipated events among Italian gamers for making smart purchases on hardware, peripherals and titles — an occasion worth keeping an eye on if you want to build your game library without emptying your…
Blizzard has added a new adventure to its award-winning Hearthstone — and let’s say it right away: it’s a lot of fun. A Night in Karazhan takes players to the opulent party thrown by Archmage Medivh, with a playful atmosphere and fresh, original game mechanics. What Is Hearthstone For anyone not familiar, Hearthstone is the…
I’d been wanting to write about this title for a while, even though I’d finished it some months before finally sitting down to do so. Wolfenstein: The New Order is a 2014 game — a premium title that, with a little patience during a Steam sale, became a practically mandatory purchase. And I have no…
There was something special about the summer of 2016, when No Man’s Sky launched amid enormous expectations and equally enormous controversy. This post isn’t a review — it’s the account of an experience, much like the galaxy it describes: personal, unique, unrepeatable. What Is No Man’s Sky? It’s a space exploration game in which you…
SQL Server Management Studio’s AlwaysOn Availability Groups wizard covers most common scenarios well — but it has a significant limitation: it cannot impersonate a custom user to access a remote backup path with non-default credentials. When your backup share requires a specific domain account or a custom username/password combination, you need to perform the initial…
When migrating SQL Server instances, one of the most error-prone steps is transferring SQL logins to the destination. Simply scripting a login with CREATE LOGIN … WITH PASSWORD won’t preserve the original password hash or the original SID — and mismatched SIDs between instance logins and database users will break application connectivity even if the…
Before diving into a deep performance investigation — wait stats, execution plans, I/O benchmarks — it’s worth checking whether a simple configuration oversight is behind the problem. One of the most common and highest-impact quick wins in MySQL is query cache sizing. A cache that’s disabled, too small, or incorrectly sized can account for a…
Moving SQL Server databases to a new volume — whether to rebalance I/O across storage, migrate to faster disks, or reclaim space — requires a methodical approach to avoid downtime surprises. The detach/attach method is the fastest option when you can afford a brief offline window: no backup involved, no network transfer overhead. This metascript…
When the daily backup history is too granular for a high-level capacity planning overview, a monthly view gives a cleaner picture of long-term growth trends. This query aggregates backup data from msdb..backupset by month, taking the peak size reached in each month to calculate the net monthly change. This complements the daily report: use the…
Capacity planning starts with understanding how your databases grow over time. The simplest source of historical size data in SQL Server is the backup catalog: msdb..backupset records information about every backup taken on the instance. If you don’t have a dedicated monitoring tool, this is a reliable starting point. Two important caveats before using this…