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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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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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There continues to be confusion about the role of Applications DBAs in supporting the E-Business Suite (EBS). We still encounter organizations that believe that any Oracle DBA can easily transition over to being an Applications DBA (it is still a database after all!). For them, EBS is seen as just another commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) application with […]

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PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU START!
While performing a recent upgrade FROM Release 11.5.9.2 / RDBMS 9.2.0.8 TO Release 12.0.4 (with the 12.0.5 Financials Family Pack) on RDBMS 10.2.0.3, we encountered many issues that stemmed from the same root cause. With a little research, we determined that two database options, OLAP and Data Mining, needed to […]

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As a kid I always read the sides of the cereal box where it mentioned the Recommended Daily Allowance for various food, vitamins and such. For that reason that acronym, RDA, will always stick in my mind.
But today we are talking about a different RDA, the Oracle kind. I’ve recently spent some time […]

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In March 07, Oracle released the Applications Management Pack (AMP) for Enterprise Manager. One of the interesting features about the AMP is that it provides the ability to do data masking when cloning data from a production environment to a secondary environment where testing is done. This data masking ensures that confidential information […]

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A Technical Roadmap for Oracle Fusion, E-Business Suite Release 12, and Oracle Fusion Applications - John Stouffer, Triora Group, LLC - Many companies who have purchased best of breed applications […]

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