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 [...]
If I Wanted to Sweat That Much, I’d Have Gone to the Sauna
October 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: DBA · Database · E-Business Suite · Oracle
New Oracle Database 10g Patch #3 Certified (10.2.0.4)
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
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. [...]
Tags: Critical Patch Update · DBA · Data Vault · Database · Oracle · Patch · Premier Support · Release 11i · Steven Chan
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