Solr, also known as Cloudera Search within Cloudera Manager, is a distributed service for indexing and searching data stored in HDFS. Add the Solr Service […]
Continue readingPurge Backup History from SQL msdb Database
I just about ran out of space on my Data partition and discovered that the msdb database was over 114 GB! In particular, the backupfile […]
Continue readingClear Orchestrator Logs from Runbooks by Folder Name
I found it useful to clear Orchestrator Runbook logs by Folder. This allowed me to clear smaller chunks of logs from Orchestrator where in the […]
Continue readingSearch Orchestrator for Text Under an Activity’s Script
I had a client request that I search within all scripts within their PowerShell objects in Orchestrator for a string. They had over 1,000 Runbooks […]
Continue readingQuery for the Size of All Databases in SQL
If you need to see the size of all databases on an SQL server, here is a helpful query, one I always seem to need […]
Continue readingAdding Style to a File Upload Button
File upload buttons are notoriously difficult to style – browsers always want to use their own style for this button. However, to keep a site’s […]
Continue readingBeing Wrong Can Be Right
From TeamQuest’s blog for ITSO, I learned that being wrong can sometimes be right: “Danish scientist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr defined an expert as […]
Continue readingNo Connection!! Clear Your ARP Table
A great article! This is rare, but sometimes you need to know: http://zeldor.biz/2011/09/clear-arp-cache/
Continue readingFind and delete files recursively in Linux
I needed this command today when my disk ran out of space: sudo rm `sudo find /var/log -name ‘*.log.*’` -f The command will delete every […]
Continue readingUsing Cloudera Manager I found it very easy to configure single-node Hadoop development nodes that can be used by our developers to test their Pig […]
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