If you are hear to learn more about caffeine or performance drugs, I’m sorry to disappoint you.
Instead I want to offer my humble recommendations for improving your daily performance on your laptop/desktop.
**Warning** This is one of those posts that isn’t really Oracle-specific, so my apologies in advance.
Instead I want to highlight some software tools and [...]
Entries from June 2008
Desktop Performance Enhancers
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Desktop
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
June 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: DBA · Database · E-Business Suite · SOA Suite · Uncategorized
Applications DBAs of the World Unite!
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: DBA · E-Business Suite · Oracle
Upgrading to Release 12?
June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Database · E-Business Suite · Release 12 · Upgrades
What are you Learning today about Oracle?
June 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
Do you get a kick out of Oracle? I, for one, enjoy Oracle because there is always so much to learn. And, although no one can know everything, Oracle certainly provides a wealth of learning opportunities. If you are reading this, then you are most likely involved with the Oracle E-Business Suite. You may be [...]
Oracle Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA)
June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: DBA · E-Business Suite · RDA · Release 11i · Release 12