The Triora Group

At the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing there was discussion about some changes affecting OBIEE.  I haven’t confirmed yet but it was mentioned that Oracle has announced the ability to use Oracle Data Integrator (formerly Synopsis) as the ETL engine for OBIEE rather than Informatica.
Why is this of interest?  The [...]

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Two days ago, Oracle announced their latest Critical Patch Update (CPU) for the E-Business Suite.
Critical Patch Updates are released quarterly and are generally cumulative, however Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Release 11i patches are not cumulative, so 11i customers should refer to previous Critical Patch Updates to identify previous security fixes they want to apply.  [...]

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Recently Stephen Chan noted that many E-Business Suite users are going to be tempted to load the new version of Internet Explorer which was release several weeks ago.  The results of installing IE8 (and replacing IE7) could be headaches for those of us who are supporting users.
For that reason he’s recommending that users continue using [...]

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For those of you on Release 12, MetaLink Doc. ID: 746824.1, “Alert! – Mandatory Patch R12.1 SCP_PF.B CU1 (12.1.01) Released” announces another mandatory patch. The SCP_PF.B CU1 patch looks like the first Critical Update patch for Release 12.1, which hasn’t been released yet. Floyd Teter tells us he thinks Release 12.1 [...]

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We received this question from a colleague:
I applied the RUP 6 patch (plus pre and post req patches)  in my Patch and DEV instance and all seemed to work just fine. So I applied RUP 6 to our Test environment and there were a few issues but it seemed I resolved them. The errors I [...]

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If there is one question that we are asked most frequently by our clients, this is probably it. Unfortunately, the answer isn’t as cut-and-dried as they typically expect. Just like onions (and ogres), the answer has layers.
First, let’s ask the question, “Why do we patch?” or, more precisely, “Why do we want to [...]

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Have you ever been watching the output of TOP or say GLANCE and noted the high resource usage of a particular process? The other day a co-worker and I were watching just such an event. We run in an HP-UX environment, so we were using GLANCE to monitor resource consumption. We had recently implemented [...]

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A short time ago, I was working on an upgrade and ran into a situation where this was needed. According to the patch readme, I needed to submit a concurrent request after applying a specific patch. So, to do this graphically, I needed to disable the maintenance mode and start up the application. Then I [...]

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By now you all know that the proper way to add a custom top directory to your E-Business Suite instance is through the ${APPL_TOP}/admin/topfile.txt (MetaLink Note: 216589.1). By adding an entry to that file, AutoConfig will:
1)  Create the environment variable for you
2)  Put it into the context file
3)  Update various commonly missed files (formservlet.ini, for [...]

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Many Apps DBAs already know how to automate patching for the E-Business Suite. But, it has been quite awhile since I saw anything written on this activity for the newer incoming Apps DBAs, so I though I would take a few minutes to cover this. For me, there are also some additional efficiencies to be [...]

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