by XTIVIA | Dec 4, 2011 | Blog, Databases
The truth of this Yiddish proverb has been repeatedly reveled to me in both my personal and professional lives. Professionally, I cannot begin to count the number of client’s with whom I have worked who have tried to solve a SQL Server performance issue with more...
by XTIVIA | Dec 1, 2011 | Blog, Databases
I have two recurring career related nightmares one of which I’ve come to discover is part of the shared consciousness of many DBAs: catastrophic database failure. Not that we haven’t trained for efficient and timely recovery in preparation for such an event, but...
by XTIVIA | Oct 4, 2011 | News
10-04-11 Satisfied customers, strong demand for web solutions driving growth for platform provider Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced today that XTIVIA has become a Platinum Partner following a year of rapid...
by XTIVIA | Sep 21, 2011 | Blog, Databases
Assuming you don’t know anything literally about the Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) environment, You should start with: 1. Database version, O/S version, how many nodes, tns names, listener information? 2. Database Size, Storage architecture, raid/ASM...
by XTIVIA | Sep 8, 2011 | News
09-08-11 XTIVIA, an expert Certified Liferay software and services provider, today announced that XTIVIA will assume first line support for Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition. Dennis Robinson, CEO of XTIVIA noted: “This is a great fit for our organization given...
by XTIVIA | Sep 2, 2011 | Blog, Databases
Please check out this video on how to set up replication using IBM DB2 Replication Center. Be sure and contact me if you have any questions. Thanks for...
by XTIVIA | Aug 31, 2011 | Blog, Portals
When you write your blog entry, you usually don’t think about things like colons (:). It turns out that Liferay at least as of 6.0 SP1 has issues with colons in blog entry titles, which is especially noticeable in the RSS feeds. How to fix these? Thanks to Open...
by XTIVIA | Aug 24, 2011 | News
08-24-11 XTIVIA, Inc. will be attending the Liferay fifth annual West Coast Symposium in Anaheim, California on September 21-21, 2011. Be sure to visit with XTIVIA during the conference to see how XTIVIA can help you develop and deploy Liferay Portal-based...
by Keith O'Connell | Aug 18, 2011 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
One of the primary motivations for setting up Liferay in a cluster is to provide high availability in the event of an application server crash. In this post, I will run through the process of configuring Tomcat to provide basic session replication, which is a critical...
by Keith O'Connell | Aug 17, 2011 | Blog, Portals
Recently, I was asked by a client to help them set up a couple of SSL certificates on two IBM HTTP Server (IHS) environments; one for QA, and one for development. It’d been a while since I worked with SSL certificates, but from what I recalled, it’s...
by Keith O'Connell | Aug 11, 2011 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Creating Portlets for Integration With Salesforce.com Part 2: Making Calls Against the Web Service 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;...
by Barrie Shaw | Aug 10, 2011 | Blog, Databases
One of our clients was experiencing an issue with their production Informix Online 5.05.UC11 databases running on SCO Unix 3.24 and we had the opportunity to help them a couple of weeks ago. It is surprising how many old installations of Informix you find still...
