Author: Arnoud Roth

Sometimes you come across beautiful things in your life, you wish you had known before, because they were there all the time, waiting for that moment to be discovered …

Oracle recently announced certification for E-Business Suite 11i on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 So, today I gave it a try, together with a colleague.   The requirements for installing …

With the end of full support for RedHat’s Enterpris Linux 4 as of May 15 (2008), Oracle was just in time announcing support for Enterprise Linux 5 (both Oracle’s …

Today I stumbled on a blog post of Steven Chan, Sr. Director, Oracle Applications Technology Integration at Oracle. His blog post announces the support for IPv6 for E-Business Suite …

Being the last day of the conference there was a shorter program, only until early afternoon. I must say, this has been a very valuable conference for me. I …

I am supposed to be at a party tonight, but I am too exhausted, to be honest to go out and my head is too full with all kinds …

This was my second day of Collaborate 08. I attended 3 sessions today:   Oracle Unbreakable Linux and Oracle VM – by Monica Kumar, Oracle Building E-Business Suite Interfaces …

Today I have started my very first Collaborate Experience. It was a very interesting day indeed, all of the presentations I went to were of high value. My program …

The past days have been really interesting. During last Wednesday (november 24) we finished the XML topic, covering Generating XML from an Oracle Database, Managing XML data in an Oracle Database, …

Hi there! Today we continued our journey into the XML realm, by exploring the XML Schema, XPath, XSL and XML DB. XML Schemas XML Schemas are based on XML …

Today was the first day of the FM BootCamp. After a brief introduction of the program we started with our first topic of this two-week intensive hands-on Fusion Middleware Experience. …

Well,Today finally was the day. I have been looking forward a lot coming to Chicago for the Fusion Middleware Bootcamp. Getting up around 5:30am to get to the train …

I was verifying a custom application installation in E-Business Suite for a customer lately. While looking for the documentation the installation was done with, I came across Metalink Note …

In the past days I have implemented a well known architecture to many of my fellow Oracle E-Business Suite DBAs: An architecture that consists of multiple Application Servers. Until …

I am sure I am one of those humans that are using something for a long long time, and suddenly find out they have been doing things in a …

Implementing a shared APPL_TOP with E-Business Suite is common practice these days. Since 11.5.10, there is also support for a shared technology stack (8.0.6 and iAS ORACLE_HOMEs). But what …

After having completed my first installation of E-Business Suite Release 12, I decided to take a look on Metalink whether there were some critical updates to EBS Release 12. …

As soon as EBS Release 12 became available, I started with the installation, eager to find out what the differences were compared to 11i. I had had the opportunity …

Oracle has “recently” launched the Oracle Applications Technology Certified Professional Administrator (OCP) certification. First, Oracle launched a beta program for this certification, to end on October 31st of this …

Yesterday I needed to apply a patch to my Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10.2 environment. This environment consist of a 10G release 2 RAC database and two application tiers. I …

Two weeks ago I encountered a very weird issue when using Microsoft Cluster Server. What happened? We created a MS Cluster Server environment with two servers (NodeA and NodeB, the …

Oracle and resilvering data on Mirrored Logical Volumes on AIX How to set up your storage with regards to Mirror Write Consistency Suppose you have or plan to implement an …

Oracle 10g Cluster Ready Services enables databases to use a Virtual IP address to configure the listener on. This feature is to assure that oracle clients quickly failover when …