Oracle Buys Sun Microsystems‏

Today I received an email from my friend mohammad muhtadi telling me that Oracle Corporation the largest enterprise software company acquired Sun Microsystems and thought of sharing that with you.
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/2009-0420/index.jsp
http://www.oracle.com/sun/index.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a38_8MJNSjR4&refer=home

It seems oracle now acquiring different type of business and this is a big step from Oracle

fadi

Sharing is Caring 4

Oracle Community
it the new site for oracle social networking, http://www.oraclecommunity.net/to make oracle community even smaller.

enjoy
Fadi

Questions needed answers

Dears apps dbas,
I hope thing are well with you, I received the following questions from a friend of mine and I promised him to answer them and wanted to share them with you maybe you can help me answer most of them.
Appreciate your help.

(we have some of the answers by dave (thank you) in the comments and all of them under http://www.teachmeoracle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4102)

1. How do we know that particular instance is cloned or normal installed?
2. How can you know that how many modules are already implemented in this instance?
3. How to enable archive log without shutting down your database?
4. How can we know that whether we already applied latest AUTOCONFIG patch or not at our instance?
5. Is this possible to clone a database from hotbackup? If yes plz tell how?
6. Suppose your database size is 2000GB now you want to clone a particular one datafile or tablespace. Plz tell how co clone a datafile or tablespace?
7. You are applying a patch but suddenly it HANGS but log file didn’t showing any error what should be the reason for that HANG?
8. How to clone from multimode to single node?
9. How to apply patch on forms/reports server?

Thanks again for help
Fadi

Hail the Champions

I participate recently in a post from our famous Bolger OCP advisor, it a nice blog that help apps community with info. About Apps certification.
I am trying to be active again.
You can check his post here.

Good luck with your certification
Fadi

Oracle EBS R12 beta exam are you ready

I received the following email from oracle certification program
“Oracle University is pleased to announce the availability of the following new Oracle E-Business Suite (R12) certification exam in beta version:
Oracle EBS R12: Install, Patch and Maintain Applications [1Z0-238]
This new exam is required as part of earning the new Oracle EBS R12 Applications Database Administrator Certified Professional certification.
By participating in this beta exam, you have the opportunity to provide the Oracle Certification program with feedback about exam content which is integral to the process of exam development. We depend on the contributions of experienced professionals and developers as we continually improve exam content and maintain the value of Oracle certifications.

Beta exam period runs:
January 03 – April 04, 2008
These beta periods are subject to change, please check the exam pages for the most up-to-date information
“

Good luck with your exams
fadi

Accessing Custom Forms after Upgrading To R12

I was checking customization upgrade subject since we faced it and I found this interesting note (451934.1)


The note is talking about how to make custom forms that where created and working fine on 11i to work the on R12.
And according to the note
"All custom forms that were build and working fine on releases 11i are designed and compiled using the Form Builder 6i, while the developer version for R12 is 10G.So you need to open the custom forms in Form Builder release 10G and compile them and save then upload them again."

I did not try the solution yet but thought of sharing it since many were asking bout this subject lately.
Also i found the (Custom forms does not work after upgrade to 12i) forum helpful

Oracle support day in amman

Been busy lately, yesterday I went to oracle support day at Hayyat Amman. It was presented by two oracle support managers, wael sadaqa from Oracle dubi and jafar al omary from Oracle Saudi Arabia, they presented how to work effectively with support and the escalation process and they also stressed on using oracle diagnostics and configuration support manager. They mentioned a little bit about R12 upgrade process and they mentioned that people who are doing upgrade will get more attention from oracle support.
It was good and helpful, the presentations can be downloaded from here
Fadi

An update on this (25-jun-2007)
The presentations can be downloaded from here

R12 Vision is available now online

I received the following from solution beacon

"Solution beacon has installed R12 Vision instance which is now available on their website.
Check it out at http://www.solutionbeacon.com/tools_vision.htm

Please note that there are some steps to install the desktop plug-in differently from Release 11i. Please also note that Release 12 requires a user to enable ActiveX and download the Sun JRE instead of the JInitiator the first time the Applications are accessed."

Thank you Solution Beacon Team

Fadi

Upgrade journey to R12

Well at the beginning I though it will be a difficult task but when you get in to it, you will find out that it's kind of clear task so far ;-)

My plan was to clone my production system to a new server just for the upgrade purpose so I had to do a cloning from multi-node to single node based on note 233428.1 and of course with a great help from sam's post (Multi Node to Single Node Cloning) thank you sam.

After that I started the upgrade journey to R12 I just finished the Database upgrade path acutely I am running the utlrp.sql script while I am writing this post, every thing is clear so far.
I will keep you posted in case of any issue and incase I reach the R12 successfully or not (I hope I will).

I need to major the time needed to do the upgrade and to know if there any issues, my next step will be the upgrade to R12 on my Test servers.

Fadi

Ready for Apps R12 go and download it now

Congratulations apps dbas and functional people oracle e-business R12 is now available for download at http://edelivery.oracle.com/ the version available is for AIX, hp-ux itanium and Linux x86 the rest of other os will be available soon,
My friend ghassan is downloading the Linux version and after that he will download the hp-ux version for me (he has 2M ADSL connection). i will post incase i face problems during the installation (i will for sure face some:-)

Anyway people you need for the vision version around 160 GB.
Check the documentation library at Oracle Applications Documentation Resources for Release 12 (Metalink Note 394692.1) and at oracle website

Enjoy
Fadi

Do you need info. about R12

As the day of lunching Oracle Apps R12 is getting closer I came across this document on metalink (404152.1) (Release Content Documents for E-Business Suite R12)

This document contains links to the published Release Content Documents for Oracle Applications, E-Business Suite Release 12. The RCD or Release Content Documentation communicates information about new or changed functionality in the specified release of the Oracle E-Business Suite. Existing functionality from prior point releases is not described. Use this document as a launchpad for R12 RCDs.

It includes info about all the Product Families on Oracle Application R12 so check it out.