When Sitecore 9 was introduced, a new way of storing contact data called XDB was introduced. XDB which is short for the Experience Database, stores all the data related to contacts, such as interactions, contacts and their related facets. To support a large intake and retention of data, Sitecore chose to use sharded databases, which …
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Sitecore is great in collecting data; an insane amount of data. The XDB data that Sitecore collects is stored within the XDB Shard databases. These databases contain everything about contacts, their interactions and their facets. When you have Sitecore running for a while, you’ll see these databases grow. Out of the box there’s nothing that …
When a contact is merged with another contact, only facets that do not exist on the target contact will be copied. This means that when both the Source and Target contact have a value set in their Marketing Preferences facet, only the Marketing Prefences from the Target contact will be kept. This can cause unwanted …
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A while ago i’ve noticed that for one of our instances the memory usage of the XConnect Search Indexer was extremly high and would not go down. In addition to that, I also saw that changes on XDB related data were not reflected within Solr. Rescaling the webapp to a higher plan would just result …
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Most of you will already know, but all Contact Identifiers within XConnect are case-sensitive. This means that your-email@test.com is different than your-email@TEST.COM. One should expect that the List Manager converts all emailaddresses to lowercase, so the import would be consistent, and that it does not depend on the Markteer knowing that he should have converted …
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XConnect offers you the possibility to register types for Dependency Injection, by using configuration files. Make sure your configuration file starts with sc. Make sure the service node (YourServiceNameMustBeUnique) is unique. This does not have to represent the name of your service and can be filled in to your own liking. You can use either …