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This month’s blog was supposed to be about a workflow issue that I ran into on a recent upgrade. However, that problem requires some additional research before I can post the findings here. So I decided to write about a different issue that came up during the same upgrade.
The recent upgrade was centered upon upgrading [...]

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This morning’s session with the OAUG Upgrade SIG was accented by the attendance of Stephen Chan, who many of you probably recognize from his well-known blog.
During the session there was a discussion on the future of R12 updates and he noted that there are plans to to release one more Financials Family Pack for Release [...]

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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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Over the years, I’ve often been reminded of a diagram in the book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.  In Chapter 3, Steven Covey discusses the need to “Put First Things First” and includes a discussion about four types of activities that we all face at work.  Two of the activities are critical to [...]

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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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