by XTIVIA | Sep 17, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Shortly after creating a database on your server you should be planning and scheduling your backup. Easy as it sounds it’s often approached incorrectly. Often the decision when to backup is based on when the server resource usage is low. Database Backup maintenance...
by XTIVIA | Sep 10, 2015 | Blog, Databases
Usually only a DBA forces or even views connections to a DB2 database. But in many small companies, people play multiple roles, and I thought I’d share a detailed introduction to how to look at and force off connections to a DB2 database. All details and...
by XTIVIA | Aug 6, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
A lot of DB2 LUW DBAs spend significantly more time working with DB2 on Linux and UNIX than they do working with DB2 on Microsoft Windows. This can lead to frustration when administering DB2 on Windows. Using a PowerShell command line for DB2 instead of a DB2 Command...
by Derek Nerenberg | Jul 31, 2015 | Blog, Databases, Portals
This post shows you how to query Liferay’s database and see which Documents and Media files are marked ‘searchable’. For these examples, I was using SQL Server and did not validate the queries work on other databases. They are...
by XTIVIA | Jul 19, 2015 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Databases
SQL Server Integration Services offers a useful tool to analyze data before you bring it into your Data Warehouse. The Profile Task will store the analysis in an XML file, which you can view using the Data Profile Viewer. Before we review how to use the...
by XTIVIA | Jul 7, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
When upgrading DB2 fix pack, you need to make sure that all DB2 related processes have been shut down clean. In normal circumstances, you would: db2stop (if that does not work, try db2stop force) db2licd –end ipclean Even after following the steps, you may still see...
by XTIVIA | Jun 30, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
There are several times that you may have DB2 restore authorization errors and have to restore from a production box to a beta or a QA environment as a different user. In that scenario, the restore commands will work just fine but you will receive authorization errors...
by Tori Aubé | Jun 23, 2015 | Blog, Databases
Are you noticing a drop in performance? Are you seeing a large percentage of index fragmentation? If your data page fill factor value set to a high number, page splits could be the culprit. We have helped many of our VDBA customers with these problems. What are Page...
by XTIVIA | Jun 23, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
One of our customers recently wanted to extract data using db2audit, but the documentation on this topic is very limited and scarce. Moreover, the commands have changed after V9.7 and finding documentation or following it could be tricky. After some testing, we were...
by XTIVIA | May 28, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
This article is part 7 of a 10 part series explaining the most common mistakes that I have seen in reference to SQL Server Performance and Resiliency. However, this post is not all-inclusive. Most common mistake #7: Disaster Recovery Plans Often when people hear...
