by Keith O'Connell | Aug 8, 2011 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
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...
by XTIVIA | Jul 18, 2011 | Blog, Databases
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...
by XTIVIA | Jul 12, 2011 | Blog, Databases
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...
by XTIVIA | Jun 23, 2011 | Blog, Portals
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...
by XTIVIA | Jun 10, 2011 | Blog, Databases
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...
by XTIVIA | Jun 7, 2011 | Blog, Databases
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. ...
by XTIVIA | Jun 4, 2011 | Blog, Databases
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...
by XTIVIA | Jun 1, 2011 | Blog, Databases
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...
by XTIVIA | May 13, 2011 | Blog, Business Intelligence
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...
by Keith O'Connell | May 12, 2011 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
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...
by XTIVIA | May 12, 2011 | Blog, Databases
Recently, I handled a client who is using CommVault for their backup and recovery application that was having issues with the agent installed on their DB2 database. My background as an Oracle DBA and a CommVault Certified Engineer allowed me to quickly identify the...
by XTIVIA | May 9, 2011 | Blog, Databases
Recently, I had a customer who was importing a long running Data Pump import job. The client needed to go home and still have a way to monitor the import job. Starting with Oracle 10g Data Pump there is a useful feature in situations in which you start a job at...
