The Triora Group

This month I am stealing a blog concept from a fellow blogger named Floyd Teter. A short time ago Floyd, an Oracle ACE Director and substantial blogger, blogged about mistakes made and lessons learned. I generally enjoy reading about the mistakes others make since those mistakes are good reminders that we need to be dilligent [...]

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Staged Environments: Steven Chan has recently published a new article about utilizing pre-patched or “staged” environments (Reducing Patching Downtimes with Staged Applications Systems). Staged Applications patching is near and dear to our hearts, as it’s the easiest way to reduce the downtime window of an upgrade (except for faster hardware…:-)).  The article clearly outlines the [...]

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In my first blog here at Triora I talked about driving our Oracle learning. Today’s article is the result of a recent learning session. These days I am far too busy to play on my home systems as much as I would like, but every now and then I take a few of the 168 [...]

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For those of you tracking the latest releases, 10gR2 Version 10.2.0.4 is now certified for Release 11i. We’re anxiously awaiting certification for Release 12. Oracle has released the latest Critical Patch Update - be sure to check out www.integrigy.com’s evaluation of the July 2008 CPU, which points to the resolution of a high risk database [...]

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What am I talking about? I love playing with anagrams. Each of the anagrams above describes the topic we are going to talk about. Can you decipher it before reading on? The answer is given at the end of this article…
How about some cool Autoconfig stuff for this month’s article? Last week I upgraded an [...]

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Yesterday as I was walking my dogs, I spotted a little bit of “little boy heaven”: two slugs – really big slugs – slithering on my hillside. I did the only thing a reallly cool Mommy could do under the circumstances – I ran back to the house and dragged my son out of bed, made [...]

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Since its introduction in July 2005, 10gR2 has become the database version of choice for many E-Business Suite environments. Originally released as 10.2.0.1 it has been regularly enhanced with new patches to 10.2.0.3. In the last several months, the third patch set was released for 10gR2, raising its current version to 10.2.0.4. [...]

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We’re often asked about the different ways of auditing to help ensure security for an E-Business Suite environment. Here’s a quick summary of some of your options:
Operating System Auditing
Many types of auditing are available, especially if “sudo” is utilized. “sudo” should be utilized for ALL accounts, though we find that it often is not in [...]

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We here at Triora Group are big advocates of staying current on RDBMS versions, so we’re excitedly waiting for the next RDBMS 10g patch, Version 10.2.0.4. We know it includes more performance patches for the database - always a good thing. However, we have to stand by Oracle’s caveat - not until it’s certified for [...]

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What do you know about the E-Business Suite and statistics? Come with us for an inside view of gathering statistics in Release 11i. One of the areas we like to look at when doing performance tuning for Release 11i systems is to review our clients’ approach to gathering database statistics. Now, gathering statistics can spark [...]

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