Oracle e-Business Suite administrators have access to pretty extensive documentation regarding Patching procedures. In Oracle EBS 12.2 Oracle introduced ADOP patching method along with Oracle Database EBR (edition-based redefinition) feature that allows minimizing downtimes for patching activities. As with everything…

The package DBMS_CLOUD was first introduced in the Autonomous Database to provide a simple way to interact with an object store from the database. It is now available for on-premise databases starting with 19.9c and 21c. It works with OCI,…

Recently I was working on a client request where a CDB along with a subset of its PDBs had to be cloned to a new server for testing purposes. This post illustrates that in certain circumstances the outcome of this…

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…

As a managed service company, we see our customers and partners shifting their workloads to the cloud. There are various reasons for this decision, but the most important ones are cost and agility. Once on a cloud, the infrastructure team…

This blog post is about a scenario where a combination of a logon trigger performing DML operations at user login time (writing to a custom audit table), and a Fast recovery area (FRA) full situation brings the database to a…

Cloning an Oracle E-Business Suite system is a complicated process, and depending on the environment topology, it can involve various steps to accomplish the task.     Partial automation of the E-Business Suite cloning procedure is often done with local…

As we all know, Java Web Start is not a new Oracle E-Business Suite technical functionality. However, I thought I’d share some insight for anyone planning a Java Web Start JWS implementation.   The gist JWS isn’t available for Oracle…

Reduce the REDO generation in your Oracle database by setting one parameter.

I’m currently reviewing an environment that has been upgraded to 19c based on information from oratab. The reason for the review is to remove previously installed versions of the software.     Oracle software is installed to ORACLE_HOME, with variables…