2014 Liferay Pulse Award: Community Contributors of the Year

Liferay Pulse Award: Community Contributors of the Year David Nebinger from XTIVIA was recognized with this award for being one of the most prolific contributors to the Liferay forums, with an impressive 1700+ posts in 2014 alone and 56 solutions (as voted by those...

Liferay Portlet Sandboxing

You may not be aware yet, but there’s a new liferay feature called Portlet Sandboxing.  You can find the “Portlet Sandbox EE” plugin in the Liferay Marketplace.  This feature was designed to isolate portlets applications from liferay and...
Removing Orphaned Oracle Datapump Jobs

Removing Orphaned Oracle Datapump Jobs

So for various reasons I run into orphaned datapump jobs either due to a session failure during the import or for some other unknown reason for a failed import. What I wanted to show you really quick was how to find them and how to remove them so you can run your...

IBM UDB DB2 Database restore and SQL1035N

SQL1035N  The database is currently in use.  SQLSTATE=57019 IBM UDB DB2 V9.7/10.1/10.5 on Windows/UNIX/Linux I have been trying to create a script that will refresh the test database using QA data on a regular schedule. As part of the script I force all...

Liferay integration with Solr cloud – Part 2

As a follow up to my last blog post on Integration Liferay with Solr Cloud, I felt that this post will help enhance Liferay’s integration with Solr cloud further by reducing the number of indexing requests that are fired off to Solr instances thus reducing the...

What’s new with Informix Update Statistics

Anyone who has worked with an Informix database knows that the moment you run into a query performance issue, you start with update statistics on that table.  This was always what we were taught in support and talking with big names at IIUG, it’s still the...

Azure SQL Databases

Managing Logins If you have worked with SQL Server a while you may recognize there is a difference between logins and users.  When it comes to managing security with SQL Server it is important to know the difference, and the differences that have come about over...

Informix Table Level Restore

Informix provides the functionality to restore a single table or a subset of a table to a point in time or to the last archive.  This functionality was originally released in IDS v10 and is provided through the archecker software which is included with the...

Interaction of Liferay with Amazon S3

Overview Liferay is at the forefront of providing integration with many popular platforms for Documents and Media. One of the options provided by Liferay out-of-the-box is integration with S3. S3 is a service provided by Amazon. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is...