The Logging Database is one of the many new concepts that will make the life of many SharePoint administrators quITe a bIT more enjoyable. In SharePoint 2007 the Unified Logging System (ULS) logged all of ITs data to text files, typically found on your SharePoint server in 12\LOGS. We still have that in SharePoint 2010, but besides those text files, ULS can also wrITe the data to a database! The advantages are obvious: easy to query, one central location for all servers in the farm, easy to build reports etc. You can find this ULS data in the SharePoint 2010 logging database (typically called WSS_Logging), in the view ULSTraceLog.
QuITe recently on one of my demo machines (standalone installation on Windows 7) I noticed the ULSTraceLog view was not available in the logging database. IT turned out that there is a Timer Job that’s responsible for wrITing the data to the database, when the Timer Job hasn’t executed, the view is not there (the first time IT executes, the view is created). Even more, the timer job was disabled, so the view would never be created, nor any data would be wrITten to the database. If you encounter this sITuation as well, IT’s quITe easy to solve:
- Open the SharePoint Central Administration sITe
- Navigate to the MonIToring section
- Select Review Job DefinITions
- Click on the job wITh the name Diagnostic Data Provider: Trace Log
- Click on the Enable button to enable IT
- Optionally click on Run Now afterwards, to start IT immediately
There you go, the ULSTraceLog will be created and the ULS messages will appear in the database!
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<img alt="twITter_logo_2010.JPG” width=”150″ height=”37″ src=”http://www.cmswire.com/images/twITter_logo_2010.JPG” />TwITter (<a href="http://www.cmswire.com/news/topic/twITter”>news, <a href="http://www.twITter.com”>sITe) is expanding ITs internal analytics capabilITies through the acquisITion of Smallthought Systems, creators of Dabble DB and Trendly.
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iPerceptions, like many analytics companies, aims to redefine market research by "boldly changing what IT means to listen to customers." Unlike many analytics companies, their solutions focus on testing performance. Their latest efforts take the form of WASP (Web analytics Solution Provider) 2.0, a web-based tool for taking a deeper look at the state of analytics solutions.
<a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-engagement/test-and-optimize-web-analytics-performance-wITh-wasp-20-007338.php?utm_source=MainRSSFeed&utm_medium=Web&utm_campaign=RSS-News”>Read full story…
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<img alt="Optimizing Your Webtrends analytics wITh Quantivo” width=”150″ height=”80″ src=”http://www.cmswire.com/images/quantivo_logo_2010.gif” />Remember Quantivo (news, sITe)? They’ve got that SaaS application designed to bring behavioral Web analytics data down to a level that anyone can understand. And they’ve just optimized IT to import Webtrends data.
<a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-content/optimizing-your-webtrends-analytics-wITh-quantivo-007181.php?utm_source=MainRSSFeed&utm_medium=Web&utm_campaign=RSS-News”>Read full story…
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<img alt="SharePoint 2010 Integrates Web analytics Service” width=”160″ height=”40″ src=”http://www.cmswire.com/images/Sharepoint%202010_logo_2010.jpg” /> As the May 12th release date draws nearer, Microsoft continues to release teaser tidbits of information about SharePoint 2010. The latest to leak is a look at the platform’s new integrated Web analytics service.
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