Author: Andrejs Prokopjevs

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

Something  exciting happened a few days ago. It started with a tweet and a blog post, and has evolved into an official CVE-2022-21500. I thought it would be good to publish some details beyond the official MOS note document.  …

For many of us, the recent log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) became a severe headache this past weekend. I thought we’d publish a summary of some of our findings gathered so far. We’ll  keep it updated with news and details published by…

Update 11-JUN-2021: Doc ID 2353710.1 has been updated. It is recommended now to apply two patches: 10.1.3 Home Patch 30003856: MERGE REQUEST ON TOP OF 10.1.3.5.0 FOR BUGS 12965674 28470429 Apps Patch 30836299: TST1213: TXKRUN.PL EXECUTION ON 1213 IS FAILING…

If you are one of the folks who have already upgraded the production E-Business Suite database to 19c Certified, then you are a superhero and this post is not for you. The majority of us are still running the good…

I encountered a new problem last week while trying to log in into LDAP-enabled Oracle Database (Enterprise User Security). I entered my SQL*Plus credentials that usually work fine, but received an error ending with ORA-12154. $ sqlplus [email protected] SQL*Plus: Release…

Great things always happen overnight. That’s probably the case for European Oracle Apps DBAs in the same situation, like myself. This morning I read Steven Chan’s latest blog post about Java Web Start certification with Oracle E-Business Suite and its…

During a recent customer environment cloning activity, I got myself up to the point where CUSTOM.plx was required to be recompiled. Nothing difficult, you might say, right? I thought the same. But that activity just killed lots of troubleshooting hours…