by XTIVIA | Jul 16, 2015 | Blog, Data Management
Logging method There are two methods of logging that DB2 supports: Circular and Archive. Other RDBMSes have similar modes. Circular The default that DB2 uses if you don’t change anything is Circular logging. Circular logging is more often appropriate for...
by XTIVIA | Jun 30, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
There are several times that you may have to restore from a production box to a beta or a QA environment as a different user. In that scenario, the restore commands will work just fine but you will receive authorization errors even when the id you used to restore has...
by XTIVIA | Jun 23, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
One of our customers recently wanted to extract data using db2audit, but the documentation on this topic is very limited and scarce. Moreover, the commands have changed after V9.7 and finding documentation or following it could be tricky. After some testing, we were...
by XTIVIA | May 28, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
This article is part 7 of a 10 part series explaining the most common mistakes that I have seen in reference to SQL Server Performance and Resiliency. However, this post is not all-inclusive. Most common mistake #7: Disaster Recovery Plans Often when people hear...
by XTIVIA | May 6, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Tip # 6 – Change History, Top 10 Tips for SQL Server Performance and Resiliency This article is part 6 in a series on the top 10 most common mistakes that I have seen impacting SQL Server Performance and Resiliency. This post is not all inclusive. Most common mistake...
by XTIVIA | Feb 26, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
This is a pretty common error and there are a few reasons you might be seeing this error. 1. The database could simply be down. If you’re on *nix platform you can simple check this by a simple ps -ef | grep pmon. If this returns ora_pmon_<instance_name>....