by XTIVIA | Jan 12, 2015 | Blog, Enterprise Infrastructure, Portals
Before we dive immediately to the code, I just want to point a subtle difference in the example code that Ionic has here. I am using ng-init to call the initialize method rather than having it in the controller. I also declared the initialize function in the scope....
by XTIVIA | Jan 9, 2015 | Blog, Enterprise Java
Introduction Ionic is an HTML5 SDK for mobile applications using Apache Cordova, allowing developers to code in HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Ionic provides out-of-the-box components for even faster development. Environment Setup For this setup, we will be configuring a...
by XTIVIA | Jan 9, 2015 | AWS, Blog, Enterprise Infrastructure
Let us take a look at the scenario where you make a configuration change to an AWS Linux instance and reboot the AWS instance for the changes to take effect. However, on rebooting, the instance is not accessible. What would you do if the configuration change you made...
by XTIVIA | Jan 5, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Often the first stop in troubleshooting is taking a peek at those logs. SQL Server Error logs can provide a lot of useful information and when it comes down to troubleshooting a SQL Server problem one cannot go wrong by cracking open the log files. The SQL Server...
by XTIVIA | Dec 24, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
SQL Server is indeed a powerfull database management system, however Microsoft has not yet included the run yourself feature as of yet. And it is because of this Database Administrators need a good set of tools to not only manage SQL Server but to also monitor what is...
by XTIVIA | Dec 18, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
******** IMPORTANT WARNING ******** DO NOT ENCRYPT ANYTHING WITHOUT FIRST TAKING BACKUPS OF ALL KEYS, BACKUP THE CERTIFICATE, AND NOTE THE PASSWORDS USED. When dealing with encryption of any kind in SQL Server it all begins with the Service Master Key (SMK)....
by XTIVIA | Dec 16, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Introduction A picture is worth a thousand words! This popular adage refers to the notion that a complex idea or dataset can be conveyed with just a single image. It has been observed that people relate to images quicker than just looking at tabular data. Effective...
by XTIVIA | Dec 12, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence
You may run into an issue where several reports scheduled at the same time do not kick off. One cause for this is that the server does not have enough time to kick off all the reports before the expiry of the cut off time. A remedy for this issue is to increase the...
by XTIVIA | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Have you heard and understand why processing a ‘select * from any table’ can be negative on the performance impact? While I was doing some demo prep for my upcoming PASS Summit Pre-Conference I saw this behavior at its worst. Before we jump into why...
by XTIVIA | Dec 9, 2014 | News
12-09-14 by Vivek Agarwal While many people have prognosticated the death of the portal server over the past decade or so, the fact is that Liferay is very much alive and kicking, as was evidenced by the success of the 2014 Boston Liferay Symposium. As the...
by XTIVIA | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog, Databases
SQL Server 2005/2008/2012: How to connect to a IBM UDB DB2 data source and query it? You will need the following to install the drivers and connect to the IBM UDB DB2 data source: Hostname of the DB2 server. Port number where the DB2 instance is listening. You can ask...
by XTIVIA | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Sometimes things should only happen at certain times. Not long ago I was asked to create a script that is triggered by an event, however, would only execute certain commands if the event occurred during a single specific time range. Creating an alert to handle...
by XTIVIA | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Recently for a client I had to manually remove a few failed database software installations and a couple of failed client installs from a Windows 2008R2 server. Attempts were made to try and force a 10.2.0.1 Oracle Database and client install on the server. They were...
by XTIVIA | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
So we have several Virtual-DBA clients that come to us that either had previous DBAs onsite or previous remote DBA services. Everyone has different ways of setting up performance monitoring of databases, though a potentional problem that I see a lot is the...
