Author: Vasu Balla

Our mission at Pythian is to help you Love Your Data. Because security is a crucial part of managing your data, we’re pleased to tell you about the identity management (IdM) solution we’ve developed to make it easier for Oracle…

The Oracle Smart Flash Cache feature was originally introduced in the 11gR2 version of Oracle Database. It works as an extension of the buffer cache in System Global Area (SGA). With this feature, instead of removing least recently used (LRU)…

Oracle E-Business Suite has been certified with Oracle Database 19c for over a year now. We’ve been seeing an uptick in customer requests to upgrade their E-Business Suite (EBS) database to 19c. Multiple factors seem to be driving this increase,…

Oracle, by default, ships preinstall RPMs only for Oracle Linux. Preinstall RPMs make the life of DBA very easy by taking care of installing full laundry lists of required prereq RPMs for Oracle E-Business Suite, as well as setting all required…

Recenty, Oracle EBS ATG’s team announced a new certification: “Oracle Grid 12c Release 2 (12.2) Certified with RAC 12.1 and EBS 12.2“. This is a very new kind of certification, which is different from their previous certifications related to RAC databases….

Continuing my previous efforts in getting docker running on Oracle Linux in this blog post, I worked on getting Oracle E-Business Suite Vision Instance on docker. This blog explains the process. Many are aware that Oracle nowadays ships Vision Instance…

Over the last couple of years, I have been hearing about Docker at different conferences. It’s a container technology that seems to have gained a lot of popularity. In recent months, I have started exploring how Docker can be used…

Enabling TLS/SSL is the first step of securing Oracle E-Business Suite, especially if you have internet facing DMZ nodes. TLS is what powers the Oracle EBS to use https URLs. LetsEncrypt makes this process easy. Let’s Encrypt is a certificate…

Vasu Balla, Oracle Apps DBA and Principal Consultant at Pythian, provides a solution to using virtual hostname successfully with Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2.

For a long time now I’ve wanted to start a blog series outlining the not-so-obvious things that have changed in the new Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2. Here comes the new “Did You Know” series specifically for Oracle E-Business Suite! Lets start this…