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Developing Portlets for Salesforce.com Integration, Part 1
Creating Portlets for Integration With Salesforce.com Part 1: Consuming the Force.com Enterprise WSDL Integration with the Salesforce.com API is a feature that is highly desirable for any organization which uses that platform to track opportunities in the sales pipeline; as a...
DB2 SQL Replication lessons learned PART 2
This is part two of lessons learned during a recent DB2 SQL Replication engagement. After registering a source table for replication and creating an Apply Control server, you need to create a new Subscription set under that Apply Control server. This is on the target side...
DB2 SQL Replication lessons learned
Registering an existing DB2 source table for CCD (Consistent Changed Data) replication using the DB2 Replication Center: This blog entry is from lessons learned on a recent engagement in which the client wanted to replicate several large tables from a Linux system to a Windows...
Missing Settings From a Draft Blog Entry?
While enhancing our blogs portlet functionality, I came across what appeared to be a few interesting oversights while editing blogs. While editing and publishing (or submitting for publication) a blog entry worked entirely as expected, if one selected the “Save as Draft”...
Built in DB2 SQL replication troubleshooting utilities and log file maintenance
I'm posting some useful DB2 SQL replication troubleshooting utilities and how to use them. These will work with any version 9 replication environment. ASNANALYZE Use the asnanalyze command to generate reports about the state of the replication control...
Hacker Breaks into Lockheed Martin Using Stolen RSA Info; Are you at Risk Too?
Today, 2011 Jun 07, RSA admitted that a hacker was able to break into a Lockheed Martin computer system because of a data breach at RSA. This is a huge problem for RSA, since their business model is pretty much defined by preventing exactly this situation. But what...
CommVault: Is it the right backup tool for your company?
Is your company considering using CommVault's Simpana Backup software to backup your database's and other applications? I am a certified CommVault Software Engineer and also an Oracle Certified (OCP) 10g Database Administrator. Having previously worked for CommVault as an...
ORACLE: Upgrade to 11gR2 – Migrate to ASM
11gR2 Upgrade: Recently, I had a customer who needed to upgrade their database to 11gR2 from 10.2.0.3. The upgrade needed to move the database from a cooked file system to Oracle's ASM. Additionally, the customer wanted to have Oracle Enterprise Manager installed and...
BI Tool Selection Considerations
Which BI tool is right for us? Every organization faces this decision when they are looking to build a BI solution. We have had a lot of customers ask this to us. Without going into too much detail, I will outline the process I like to use. Price is almost always a...
Caching Observations in Liferay 6
Recently, I was asked by a client to investigate how they might configure a Liferay Portal version 6 instance to completely eliminate caching of a few specific entities; in particular, the User and Group entities. On the surface, this sounds like a relatively simple...