How to Move From WordPress.com to WordPress.org

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There could be several reasons as to why you want to shift from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. The latter offers many advantages over the former. Some of them are - including advertisements on your blog, installing themes that you like, the ability to use advanced tracking software etc. Whatever the reason, moving your blog is not as difficult as you think. Simply follow the steps below and you’ll soon be on your way.

1. Get a domain name: This is the first and most important thing you should do. Renting server space is another requirement. You have the option of buying a web domain from sites such as Network Solutions or Google Apps. Alternatively, you can use web hosting services (such as KnowHost, Rackspace, Blue Host etc). It does not matter which hosting provider you choose, but do ensure that the hosting account includes details such as PHP compatibility, domain registration and MySOL databases.

2. Transfer posts: Once you have your domain name and server space sorted out, you will need to transfer your posts. Most web hosting companies offer a pre-written installation for WordPress, so this should be easy. Note that the WordPress software should be installed in a sub directory. Once this is done, you will need to click Tools- Exports on your old WordPress.com administration dashboard. Save the XML file on your desktop. Then on your new website’s administration dashboard, you need to click on Tools – Import and select WordPress. Choose the file you have downloaded previously. Then check the box which reads Import Attachments. By doing the above, all information from your old blog will be imported into your new blog at WordPress.org.

3. Direct traffic to the new site: You will need to ensure that followers of your blog and search engines will still be able to find your site. In order to do this, you will need to login to the company you registered your domain with (your domain registrar). Go to your domain’s DNS settings to make the change. Click on Configure DNS Servers and change the name to ns1, wordpress.com . Be sure you write down your existing server addresses before you make the change. Now select Upgrades – Domains from the new website’s dashboard. Enter the new address and select Add domain to blog. Click on Map Domain when you are asked to confirm this. Once this is done, go back to the dashboard and click on Upgrades – Domains. Check Update Primary Domain on the box where you have the domain name.

4. Save the changes: The last step in this process is to save the above mentioned changes. Now both your old and new domains will take visitors and search engines to your new site. Do keep in mind that Domain mapping is a paid service and you will have to renew this from Wordpress.com on a yearly basis.

These are the steps that must be followed carefully to export your blog to the new site. As you can see, that’s all it takes to move from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. Once you have done this, sit back and enjoy all the features you can use to enhance your blog.

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Randy Collins likes writing articles related to Technology News, Gadget Reviews and How To. He also does guest posting for buycharter.com - a site that offers savings and current information on charter internet, as well as charter.com services

Recognizing Common Oracle Database Performance Issues

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Oracle database performance improvements require continual and iterative efforts to produce results. It is not a one and done activity. Constant vigilance and performance monitoring are required for long-term success.

Neither is it a matter of finding and removing one performance bottleneck. There are likely more than one to be found. In fact, further investigation may lead a DBA to an even greater performance problem.

Oracle database performance problems typically result from lack of data throughput, unacceptable user or job response time, or both. To determine the nature of the problem and create a path to resolution, you must gather as much performance data as possible, including from end users, call centers, or any other stakeholder who can speak to end user system performance.

The next step is to gather Oracle database performance statistics. This can be done using the Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) or with third-party solutions such as Confio Ignite for Oracle. The statistics captured by these tools include:

• Time model statistics
• Wait events
• Session and system statistics
• Active session history
• High-load SQL statistics

 

Common Oracle Database Performance Issues Defined

Using the above statistics will assist DBAs with finding some of the most common Oracle database performance problems. Here are a few:

• CPU Bottlenecks
  When the CPU approaches or exceeds maximum utilization performance problems begin. What is causing the CPU performance issues? Bad queries? Too many consecutive users? Solving CPU issues can greatly improve performance.
• I/O Capacity Issues
  Lack of I/O subsystem performance can translate to poor end-user performance. Increasing I/O capacity or decreasing I/O loads can assist in disk I/O utilization.
• Concurrency Issues
  Concurrent activities can lead to contention for shared resources that result in locks or waits for buffer cache. Monitoring session data can show DBAs where locks and waits are occurring while users wait for their request to be processed. Reducing or eliminating these with more efficient queries and database structures creates measurable performance improvements.
• Database Configuration Issues
  What configuration issues may be contributing to poor performance. Likely candidates include incorrect sizing of log files, archiving issues, excessive checkpoints, and sub-optimal parameter settings. Be sure to look for these first.
• Unexpected Performance Loss after Tuning
  This is a DBAs worse nightmare, but sometimes tuning SQL statement may result in decreased Oracle database performance. While the exact cause of such a regression isn't predictable, having it impact system performance can be avoided by using a test server to analyze SQL statement performance before launching to production environments.

Look for these and other common Oracle database performance issue when tuning your Oracle databases. Finding and repairing them will result increased database performance and decreased end user complaints.

Post by Josh Stein on behalf of Confio Software.

Official Google Blog: What’s new with Blogger

This link features the new blogger dashboard and editing screen. If your using blogger as a blogging platform you should definitely checkout this new feature. It was unveiled last year and is being continued to be improved this year. To know more about the new feature just click the link below. Have fun and enjoy reading this post.

Official Google Blog: What’s new with Blogger

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Compact Database Corruption in MS SQL Server

The concept of Database corruption still remains obscure in the minds of many database users and the very idea to deal with it would go in vain, if you do not plan out a perfect strategy at the right time. Most often, SQL database users come across compact database corruption and in majority of cases, the real culprit is not the database itself. 

The procedure described below shows how a page is read from the disk:

1. Initially, read the page from the disk. 

2. Now decrypt the page.

3. Calculate the checksum and verify with the expected value.

4. Determine whether it is the same page, which was expected as per the system pages. 

If steps ‘3’ and ‘4’ fail, you may receive the following errors on your screen: 

“Bad Checksum - idPage: %d, tyPage: %d, iPage: %d”

Or

“Page with valid ordinal not found - idPage: %d, iPage: %d”

 These errors indicate slight corruption in your database. Here are some possible reasons that could have triggered this corruption: 

·      
Improper shutting down of a device or you might have suspended a device and then resumed the operation. 

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If there are bugs in the underlying FAT/TFAT file system, you are very likely to face Compact file corruption. Even if you are using SD file for database storage, you may experience a similar thing. 

·       Moreover, SD cards might cause a number of problems during the Suspend/Resume cycles.  

However, it would be wrong to infer that Compact code bugs do not cause corruption. These bugs are more logical in nature. But, it would be right to say that they don't lead to physical corruptions, such as “checksum errors” or “page missing” errors. 

Indeed, compact implements a shadow paging mechanism to prevent corruption. When the Compact is performing a write operation to a file and you reboot the computer, it first writes the shadows of the original user data pages to the disk and then overwrites them with the shadows of the updated system pages. In this manner, the Compact performs a safe transaction write to the disk. Here, the changes are either completely reflected or not.    

About Author: Addision Philip is a technical writer and has written several articles on sql disaster recovery. You can see the articles from sql-server-recovery.blogspot.com.

Wishlistr to Mantain an Online Wishlist

This is a guest post by Namanyay Goel. He usually Blogs about Technology Tips and Tricks, and gives reviews. Read his main Tech Blog - Create-n, or, his Facebook only Tech Blog - Faceb Tricks.

Wishlistr is an easy to use web-based application that will help you collect, organize and keep track of the things you want. It also lets you share those things with friends and family. What's on your wishlist?

Found a nice shirt? Thinking about buying that new DVD? Or the latest album from your favourite group? With Wishlistr you can collect all the things you want in one place and add things to your list from anywhere on the web by simply pressing a button!

Wishlistr lets you organize your wishlist items in to suiting templates for birthdays, weddings, holidays and more. You can easily edit or remove items on your wishlist without ever reloading the page and sort them by simply “dragging and dropping”.

Wishlistr makes it easy to share your wishlist with everyone you know. Send it to friends and family, let the most dedicated subscribe to your list via RSS or publish your wishlist on your web site or blog. Never again will you receive a gift that you did not want.

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Are you one of those people who have a long list of things you want, but forget everytime someone asks you what you’d like for a birthday gift? Or are you a techie, with a blog and a site and everything, but users don’t wanna contribute in cash and you wish you had a wishlist from which users could choose and contribute to you from? Worry no more! A solution, Wishlistr, is here!

Wishlistr is an online product which helps you create and manage wishlists, and its free!

To make a wishlist using Wishlistr, you have to signup for a free ID. You can also sign into Wishlistr using your yahoo, gmail, blogger, wordpress, technorati ID.

Once you login, you have a option for creating a list.

Go on, Create one now.

Choose a cool name for your list, add items to it. Recommended use for the fields are -

LINK - Preferably a review of the item, or any buy page from online trading/auction companies

ADDITIONAL INFO - Price, and some of the features you would like in that. Also recommended is that you change the theme from default, as it doesn’t look too good. I’ve changed mine to mordern.

You can import your Wishlist from Amazon or del.icio.us bookmarks, and you can even share it to Twitter, Facebook and the like!

Some Clever Uses -

●     You can add the wishlist to your site/blog. Use the link of the item in amazon/ebay etc in the url, and ask your users to get you one thing from the list to support you.

●     You can mantain the wishlist online, so when Christmas/Diwali/Your Birthday Comes, you don’t forget something to ask from relatives.

Hope you found a good use of wishlist. Share your with us now!

This is a guest post by Namanyay Goel. He usually Blogs about Technology Tips and Tricks, and gives reviews. Read his main Tech Blog - Create-n, or, his Facebook only Tech Blog - Faceb Tricks.

Computer 101: The System Information Tool Part 1.

Another tool that will also be able to help you understand your computer inner workings is the System Information Tool. But before we proceed i will caution everyone this tool is a bit different from the DXDIAGNOSTIC TOOL. Well for one this tool is more detailed compare to the other one and there is a whole lot more information on this. Also a lot of the information contain on this tool is very technical in nature. But do not let these things deter you from knowing your computer, yeah sure this tool is very technical in its presentation but this tool is free and there is NO I repeat NO labelled that said THIS TOOL IS FOR THE PROFESSIONAL ONLY. No wouldn't find any indication that this is for them only. This tool is for everybody, for those who is brave enough to know what is there need to know about their computer even if you do not have a technical background or come from the technical or I.T field. Now having said that please take a look at the picture or screenshot below of the System Information Tool.

I welcome you to the S.I.T. no welcome screen or message. It gets right down to the basic of your computer. You may ask why I need to know about this one, the DXDIAGNOSTIC is fine already. Well simple put it knowledge is power and the more you know the better for you. Okay look at those item on the left there the tree menu, notice those boxes with cross on the inside. If you click on them the sub item for each tree branch will appear. On the right frame it the content of its tree branch. In this first content you notice that the information about the computer is the same as that of the information displayed by the DXDIAGNOSTIC tool. Every bit of information is exactly the same, however this one contains more information that the other tool. Just like what I mentioned earlier this tool is more detailed. Examine each item very thoroughly and will know that both tool will display the same information on the same computer. But before we go any further let's back track a bit. First how does one activate this tool? Where is this tool located? Okay first click the start button then go to the accessories menu then from there looks for the System Tools sub-menu. Inside this sub-menu will find the many tools. Look for the System Tool and click on it. As you can see I highlighted the procedure so you will not be lost. Now you have two different tools that you can used to verify what is really inside your computer. They both should contain the same exact processor type, memory amount, manufacturer, Operating System version and a whole lot of other item. But wait this is just the first batch of information you will know. By clicking on the net level of the tree another set of information will be displayed, take a look at the picture below.

The first content of the Hardware resources is the Conflict/Sharing. As you can see the information shown is labelled they the Resources and Device. For the computer to work properly its need resources from the hardware like memory address and Interrupt request. Wait this is getting to technical. The summary of this information is the resources being shared by the hardware part of your computer to make them work as a one unit. . Also the conflict in resources is also shown and marks explicitly, but on this information there is no conflict in the sharing of resources. Everybody needs resources to work, from country, government to small community they need resources to function as whole even though they are not really on but a coming together of several parts working for the common goal. In this case each in every hardware and software of the computer needed each other to function normally. Without the other both of them will not be useful. As a common knowledge the hardware is just a piece of metal without the software and the same is true with the software. The benefit of both cannot be felt without the other. They go together with each other. If you are not comfortable to go on exploring this tool, then take it easy one step at the. Do a little research say on the words that are not familiar to you. Let say the word IRQ which is short for Interrupt Request, the RQ stands for ReQuest. Search for it on the internet they have ton of information regarding this word. Do it one day and one word at a time.