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Liferay and Elastic Search integration
After talking about the Elastic Search main features, how to create an Elastic Search cluster, and the Liferay, Solr and Elastic Search comparison, here's the most interesting part. Liferay and Elastic Search integration As far as I know no one has...
LPX-00106: DataGuard Observer is Version Picky
If you're like me, you tend to brush off concerns of compatibility between Oracle Client and Server versions. After all, SQL*Plus hasn't changed much in the last 15-20 years, and I've gotten used to being able to connect to pretty much any database server version with any...
Mega Menu Portlet
Tasked to think of an easy way for users to create a mega menu, I came up with a 2 portlet display/config portlet combo. At the same time, I also wanted to try JSF after hearing so many good things about it. Here we go! Menu Config Portet Let’s first see how the UI looks like....
Automatic Shutdown and Startup of Oracle Database and Listener on Linux
So I just wanted to share this quick write up on how to stop and start your Oracle database and listener automatically on a Linux server. I use this approach for 10g, 11g, and 12c and so far I haven’t had any issues. Oracle provides the means to do this using scripts called...
SQL Server Deployment Considerations
In cases when a database change needs to be made there are some good rules that when used can save you a lot of time down the road. Run changes via scripts – Scripts add for precise execution and help remove human error when it comes to typos. When creating scripts use a naming...
Jaspersoft Studio – Passing Parameters to Datasets
To pass parameters from the Main report to the datasets, the parameters have to have the same name. That is, if the name of the parameter in the main report is ‘Region’, then the Datasets which need this parameter will have to have a parameter with an identical name. The...
Liferay, Solr, Elastic Search comparison
To continue this series of blogs about Elastic Search, I would like to focus on performance. A lot of customers ask the big question: for search, what is the best solution? Liferay as is? Solr? Elastic Search? Anything else? Many people would say that there is no correct...
Setup Solr Cloud with Zookeeper and integrate it with Liferay
Clustering Solr 4.x Summary The recommended method for clustering Solr versions 4 and above is by leveraging the product’s new SolrCloud distributed capabilities to manage horizontal instance scaling. SolrCloud provides the following advanced features: Automatic distribution of...
SalesLogix – Updating Time Units in Ticket Activities Entity
Need updating time Units in ticket activities Entity? Recently I was asked to customize the add/edit ticket activities form in SalesLogix (now known as InforCRM) so that when users click the save button it will auto populate the Completed Date field with the current date and...
Goodbye dbconsole from Oracle Database 12c
I was working with a customer the other day and they were asking for some help setting up dbconsole for their 12c database. It seems that it wasn't working out of the box and they needed some help configuring it. So of course I said sure no problem! I have done dbconsole setups...