Windows Server, Database is marked as dirty after Windows is shutdown Windows Server 2008 needs a hotfix in order for a registry timeout to be set so that Reality can cleanly shutdown gracefully when Windows is. It has been identified that Windows Server 2008 R2 (and Windows 7) will by default shutdown without waiting for … Continue reading “Windows Server, Database is marked as dirty after Windows is shutdown”
How to resolve issues with Windows [Demo] Installation Reality is a database and programming product set working closely with Windows. It loads its Session Manager, realserv, as a Windows Service and other low level interfaces. Therefore issues can be seen during the [Demo] installation. The following offers advice if you see any error messages during … Continue reading “How to resolve issues with Windows [Demo] Installation”
How to resolve issues with Windows [Custom] Installation Reality is a database and programming product set working closely with Windows. It loads its Session Manager, realserv, as a Windows Service and other low level interfaces. Therefore issues can be seen during the [Custom] installation. The following offers advice if you see any error messages during the … Continue reading “How to resolve issues with Windows [Custom] Installation”
How can I access a SQL Database from Reality Reality has built in drivers for ODBC and JDBC connections to SQL Databases. However, there's also Foreign Database Support for access at the file and application level. Foreign Database Support provides Reality with access to data held on SQL-based foreign databases. There are two ways of achieving … Continue reading “How can I access a SQL Database from Reality”
IPC Message Queue Failure (from Session Manager) and users can't login If new Reality logins are hanging and Session Manager won't start you can try to clear the existing message queue. A running Session Manager is required in order for new users to login. You can try to restart using the following command as root … Continue reading “IPC Message Queue Failure (from Session Manager) and users can’t login”
Issues with OEM & Appliance Editions of Windows – Updated When non-standard versions of Windows are used you may be affected by OEM and Appliance(embedded end-user application specific) versions when trying to install and use Reality. This is typically end-user Windows versions, like Home or “light” versions that have OEM deliveries not designed to load … Continue reading “Issues with OEM & Appliance Editions of Windows – Updated”
Site Customisation Causing Release Update Issues There have been several requests for support following Reality release upgrades where users have changed the default settings. When planning an upgrade Host environment variables, Database “config” parameters and some “support only” settings must be reviewed in line with the latest defaults, environment and other information detailed for each … Continue reading “Site Customisation Causing Release Update Issues”
Creating a database with mkdbase errors with "service not running" On Windows the Reality Service, Session Manager, needs to be running in order for mkdbase to run. The Reality Service, Session Manager, should run automatically from Windows start up. First, check this using Windows Services, you should see a Reality Vxx.0 service set as Automatic … Continue reading “Creating a database with mkdbase errors with “service not running””
Help!! my licence keys have expired, what can I do Don't panic, for live systems you can invoke a 10-day grace period, for evaluation systems load the latest keys. For expired Evaluation Keys Refer to the Request a demo page in order to download a new key file to update your current keys. For any Reality keys, … Continue reading “Help!! my licence keys have expired, what can I do”
Can I replicate my database on another system without using a tape or disk file Reality does not have any inbuilt ability to replicate a database on another system, but it has the building blocks to enable this to be done by using Unix named pipes. To replicate a database on machine1 to a database … Continue reading “Can I replicate my database on another system without using a tape or disk file”