Connections 6 migration observations
I am sure that lots of you have installed or started migrations to Connections 6 by now .. but I have found a couple of gotchas across the installs and updates that I have managed so far. I am listing them here for sanities sake as I know when we google an error – this […]
Issues with Oracle with Connections 2.5 RESOLUTION

as posted by me on the Connections Blog earlier today : IBM have now released new trigger code to resolve this issue. The steps are simple * Stop the application * Backup the DB * Run through the code to remove the Trigger * Recreate the Trigger * Start the primary server and test * […]
Big maintenance weekend coming up

This weekend I am really going to Maintenance town on my live connections cluster. I have the infamous DB issue to fix. Big props to Kieran Reid from IBM for all the help with this. So triggers to delete and re-add .. no bigg just have to have the system down to solve this .. […]
Issues with Oracle on Solaris with Connections 2.5 UPDATE

As I posted on the Connections Blog earlier today … At last it appears there may be a *real* fix for this .. IBM have changed the trigger code which should hopefully fix the mutating trigger issue we see when deleting files .. I will be testing this today and if it works rolling it […]
Issues with Oracle on Solaris with Connections 2.5 – UPDATE

After some testing with the SPARC version of this fix – which actually did work we were pleased to find out that Oracle had released a version for x86. We applied this – this morning, and I am sorry to say it doesn’t work. If you try to delete a file from the DB directly […]
Issues with Oracle on Solaris with Connections 2.5

There is an issue when running Connections with Oracle on Solaris Symptoms of the problem are you can not delete certain files and / or the files widget from communities The error in the logs is – table FILES.MEDIA is mutating 08/02/10 00:01:00:569 GMT] 0000005d Library E EJPVJ9166E: Unable to delete the library with id […]
Futher to the Portal 6.1.5 set up

Futher to the Portal 6.1.5 set up – these steps were required from an ORACLE DB point of view to get the DB configured : Grant create session to community Create likeminds user Grant create table to community Grant create view to jcr Grant unlimited tablespace to community and also these grant select on sys.dba_pending_transactions […]