by XTIVIA | Sep 17, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Often when I am requested to look at an issue with SQL Server I have to spend some time in the error log. On a side note, I think the log itself is a commonly overlooked tool for troubleshooting. Often it can be a bit cumbersome to work with if the default settings...
by XTIVIA | Sep 16, 2014 | News
09-16-14 Leading open-source technology event will showcase XTIVIA’s expertise and services. Boston, MA – (September 17, 2014) – XTIVIA, known for their award winning Portal and Application Development with Liferay, announced today its participation as a...
by XTIVIA | Aug 28, 2014 | Blog, Databases
Environment: Informix 11.50 FC3 / AIX 6.1 Genero BDL 2.11.03 / Genero GDC 2.02 / License Manager 5.15. Error: Listener-thread: err = -408: oserr = 0: errstr = : Invalid message type received from the sqlexec process. One of our Virtual-DBA clients...
by XTIVIA | Aug 27, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
So I wanted to throw a quick reminder out there of a nice feature that came along with Oracle 10g and datapump exports and imports. The feature I’m referring to is the ability to detach and reattach to export and import jobs. To detach from an export or import you...
by XTIVIA | Aug 25, 2014 | News
Colorado Springs, CO, August 20, 2014 — XTIVIA, Inc., a technology services & solutions leader, has been chosen, one of the Top 100 Most Promising Technology Companies for 2014 by CIO Review. Read the full article about XTIVIA on page 108 here – CIO...
by XTIVIA | Aug 21, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Often the things I post about are the items that I am using that day, or recently. Many of the topics, are simply based on how I may have made using SQL Server a bit easier for me to use one way or another. In another SQL Server Error Log post I had mentioned a few of...
by XTIVIA | Aug 21, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Are you testing your database backups, If so how? Sure there are a couple options that you can use to help validate backups but does this mean you are 100% sure, without a doubt, that it can be restored? Have you ever seen a backup file not restore? Recently I was...
by XTIVIA | Aug 19, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
So tonight we were helping a Virtual-DBA client apply an PSU patch for an ASM/GI Oracle home. It’s a bit different in the fact that you use opatch auto instead of opatch apply or napply. You also need an OCM response file before you can run opatch auto. First...
by XTIVIA | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Infrastructure
We recently came across an interesting issue in Liferay. One of our clients was trying to cluster Liferay instances using the ehcache-cluster-web (Ehcache Cluster EE.lpkg) application downloaded from Liferay Marketplace. Liferay instances were running fine with no...
by XTIVIA | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Infrastructure, Portals
JConsole is a monitoring tool which comes with JDK, and complies to the Java Management Extensions (JMX) specification. JConsole uses the extensive instrumentation of the JVM to provide information about the performance and resource consumption of applications running...
by XTIVIA | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog, Perspectives
This article is part of an ongoing series. See the blog entry Delivering Your Enterprise: The ilities for an overall discussion. I’m about to give away one of my secrets. I probably shouldn’t, but as long as you promise to not tell anyone else, I’ll...
by XTIVIA | Jul 31, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Infrastructure, Portals
Here’s the situation – you want your Google Search Appliance (GSA) to crawl a website that either requires or sets cookies. After you crawl the site using GSA, when you go to the cached version of the page on GSA, you see an error message that says...
by XTIVIA | Jul 30, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Infrastructure, Portals
IBM WebSphere AppServer (WAS) is a true enterprise-class server which is used to service a wide variety of applications. WAS is a robust, scalable application server which provides a plethora of options; however, some of the options can be downright confusing. ...
by XTIVIA | Jul 30, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Infrastructure, Portals
We recently came across an issue in a client’s environment where they were leveraging Google Search Appliance for search. The client was trying to filter documents by last updated date and filtering documents by document dates was not working at all. GSA provides a...
