Orphaned Microsoft SQL users can occur when the user is in the database but not in the instance, even if you create an identical username the user on the database won’t match the instance user. This is all to do with the GUID (called a SID in Microsoft terms) that do not match, 1…. Read more »
Migrating WordPress Between Platforms
Okay so you want to move WordPress from either a Microsoft IIS server running Microsoft SQL to a Linux box running Apache and MySQL or the other way around? This seems like a daunting task (as I thought initially) but as I found, it is easier than once thought. Existing WordPress Site Log into your existing… Read more »
Install WordPress on Microsoft IIS with Microsoft SQL 2008 Database Backend
Okay, so I struggled to get this going so I thought my very first blog post should attempt to help other people trying to host their own WordPress blog on IIS with a Microsoft SQL backend database server. The problem came trying to get IIS to talk to the database server, the rest of the… Read more »