XTIVIA BLOG
Query your SQL Server Error Log
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 the basic...
Test That Database Backup
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 working with...
How to Create OCM Response File for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Patching
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 you need to export...
Troubleshooting Liferay EhCache clustering setup on WAS 8.x
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 issues....
Extending Liferay’s Social Office Notifications
Liferay Social Office brings many different capabilities to your enterprise. In this posting, we'll give you a background on the Social Office components, discuss how notifications involve the user, and show you how to extend the notification capability. Social Office...
Client Side Image Resize and Base64 Conversion in Infor CRM / SalesLogix
The following requires some HTML5 features, so be sure to consult a compatibility chart before throwing it into a customer's environment. I needed a way for a user to upload an image as a base64 string. This could be happening from a poor bandwidth connection, so the usual...
Informix Extents: Sizing and Performance
When tuning performance for an IBM Informix instance, one important issue to look for is the presence of tables and indexes containing a large number of extents. Today’s high speed disks and SSD drives can mask some of the performance hit, making this an area that is...
Monitor Your JVM with JConsole Portlet
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 on the...
Delivering Your Enterprise: Freshness
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 trust you. So here goes....
Setup GSA (Google Search Appliance) for websites with cookies
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 "Cookies must be...