by XTIVIA | Sep 19, 2013 | Blog, Business Intelligence
Columns can be hidden dynamically by using Jaspersoft iReport’s Table Component (Note: Styling & Group/Sub Group Totals will have to be manually added). To use the Table Component, first add a dataset to the report (select the report in the ‘Report Inspector’ and...
by XTIVIA | Aug 8, 2013 | News
08-08-13 Leading open-source industry event will feature XTIVIA’s expertise and services XTIVIA, a leading provider of mission critical Liferay-based portal solutions, announced today its participation as a Platinum sponsor at this year’s Liferay Symposium North...
by XTIVIA | Jul 30, 2013 | Blog, Databases
In recent times, database migrations have become a way of life for most database administrators. Whether moving to new hardware or into the world of virtual machines, what once was a rare project is becoming an almost everyday concern for database environments...
by XTIVIA | Jun 26, 2013 | Blog, Databases
At XTIVIA, we often perform health checks and performance tuning for clients that have issues with the CPU utilization or memory usage periodically maxing out in the middle of production by the execution of a job or report that consumes much of the available resources...
by XTIVIA | Jun 14, 2013 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Recently a client asked about the differences between Liferay and social community products. Great question! Here are some points based on our work with customers. Social community products are narrowly focused and track social interactions well, but do not provide...
by XTIVIA | Jun 6, 2013 | Blog, Portals
This is part 3 of a series written for UI-dev/FED new to Liferay. This assumes you’re solid with css/html/javascript, and have at least a passing understanding of dynamic languages like PHP or ASP. If you have a Java background, you may want to skip the parts that...
by XTIVIA | Jun 6, 2013 | Blog, Portals
This is part 2 of a series written for UI-dev/FED new to Liferay. This assumes you’re solid with css/html/javascript, and have at least a passing understanding of dynamic languages like PHP or ASP. If you have a Java background, you may want to skip the parts that...
by XTIVIA | Jun 6, 2013 | Blog, Portals
This is part 1 of a series written for UI-dev/FED new to Liferay. This assumes you’re solid with css/html/javascript, and have at least a passing understanding of dynamic languages like PHP or ASP. If you have a Java background, you may want to skip the parts that...
by XTIVIA | May 24, 2013 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
A couple a days ago we had a client contact us and ask us to take a look as their Oracle Cloud Control 12c. They were having issues with a few targets that were reporting as being down on one screen and up on another. We logged into the server and tried to run ./emctl...
by XTIVIA | May 16, 2013 | Blog, Databases
One of our Virtual-DBA clients has a small DB2 environment with version 9.7 on Linux and HADR connecting a primary and standby system. When the application team created the database, it was created using Automatic Storage on the /home filesystem. This will...
by XTIVIA | May 13, 2013 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
We have a Virtual-DBA client that was rapidly running out of space for one of their databases in VMWare. To rectify the problem we decided to move a few tablespaces to a new LUN/disk presented to the VMWare OS. We had a scheduled downtime window so we didn’t need to...
by XTIVIA | May 13, 2013 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
This Saturday we were scheduled to patch eight oracle 11gR2 databases with the latest CPU/SPU set for one of our Virtual-DBA clients. The databases were running in a zone on Solaris 10. This is normally a pretty straight forward process, but this weekend we ran into...
by XTIVIA | May 7, 2013 | Blog, Business Intelligence
Often times when implementing data integration projects – we come across a need to implement a row/key based lookup and based on the found/not-found condition update or insert a row. I started implementing a simple data flow in SSIS. The idea was simple and has...
by XTIVIA | May 7, 2013 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
So today we had a Virtual-DBA client ask us to help them patch their Oracle Financials R12 for a bug they were having a problem with. So I thought I would share with you the process we used to patch their server. They had sent me the patch number that Oracle support...
