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Real Time Operational Business Intelligence with GoldenGate

Posted by on September 1, 2013 at 5:00 pm
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Oracle Corporation’ (ORCL) acquisition of Golden Gate Software on July of 2009 was a big step for Oracle in its quest to build a open and heterogeneous product line that will be more appealing to enterprise customers with complex OLTP and data warehouse environments. You can find a detailed presentation of the considerations that were […]

How To: Download, install, configure and verify you have the latest version of Opatch

Posted by on June 9, 2013 at 2:30 am
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On this post we will discuss all the steps necessary to ensure you have the correct version of the OPatch patching utility for oracle software running on your system.

Configuring OBIEE to run as a Windows Service

Posted by on February 24, 2013 at 3:30 am
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One key step to configuring an enterprise deployment of Oracle Business Intelligence is to be setup your services to run in the background as Windows services and start automatically with your server. By default the installer will create windows services for Oracle Process Manager (OPMN) and the Weblogic Node Manager, this leaves us with the need to configure services for the Weblogic AdminServer and the BI Managed Server.

How To: Manage your Oracle patch deployment life cycle using Oracle Support Patch Plans

Posted by on December 8, 2012 at 4:30 am
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As part of my writing I often try to document and share best practices I develop on my day to day work, this one relates to formalizing the patch deployment process for your oracle environments …

Configuring the windows host file to correctly use the loopback adapter for Oracle product installations

Posted by on November 11, 2012 at 1:30 am
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This procedure is required when installing Oracle products such at the Oracle Database or Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition on a host machine that uses DHCP.  Follow the steps to configure a loopback adapterand then: Open the host file under c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc using notepad Identify your computer’s host name by right clicking on My Computer, selecting […]

Oracle Database 11g R2 Minimum Requirements (windows)

Posted by on July 10, 2012 at 4:30 am
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Database Version: gRelease 2 (11.2)for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit) Hardware Requirements Requirement Minimum Value Physical memory (RAM) GB minimum Virtual memory Double the amount of RAM Disk space Total: 5.35 GB SeeTable 2for details. Processor Type Intel (x86), AMD64, and Intel EM64T Video adapter 56 colors Screen Resolution 024 X 768 minimum Space Requirements Installation Type […]

Configuring a new loopback adapter in windows

Posted by on May 13, 2012 at 3:30 am
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Start > Control Pannel> Add  Hardware Click next on the Welcome screen  When ask if you have connected your hardware, specify yes  In the next dialog select Add new hardware device  On the following screen select Network Adapters  Select Microsoft > Microsoft Loopback Adapter from the list  Select next in the following screen to install […]

List of Bug Fixes Included In OBIEE 11.1.1.5.0

Posted by on January 5, 2012 at 9:36 am
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The following is the list of Bugs fixed in OBIEE 11.1.1.5 Release grouped by component : Admin Tool * 7538753 SAP BW IMPORT DOES NOT RETRIEVE UNIQUE NAME FOR MEASURE COLUMNS * 10012297 ADMIN TOOL CRASH ON VERY LARGE EXPRESSIONS – OVERFLOW AT APPROX 3200 CHARACTERS * 10032385 TABLE MISSING IN SQL "FROM" CLAUSE – […]

List of Bug Fixes Included In Oracle BI Publisher 11.1.1.5.0

Posted by on October 31, 2011 at 4:14 pm
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List of Bug Fixes Included In Oracle BI Publisher 11.1.1.5.0The following is a list of all bug fixes included in Oracle BI Publisher 11.1.1.5.0, grouped by type: Administration (ADMIN) * Bug 9381019 XMLP ROLES NOT HONORED WITH SSO ENABLED FOR AD SYNCHED USERS. * Bug 9934771 UNABLE TO LOGON TO PUBLISHER USING SECURITY MODEL EBS: […]

Troubleshoting Error: unable to get file lock, will retry …

Posted by on July 21, 2011 at 4:00 am
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Troubleshooting error BEA-141281 unable to get file lock, will retry …

Fixing device references after importing a Linux guest in Oracle Virtual Box

Posted by on June 9, 2011 at 2:00 pm
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After reading this post you should be better prepared to smoothly export and import Linux virtual machines from your Oracle Virtual Box servers by being ready to correct any disk device reference issues in fstab and grub.conf

Quickly run through Oracle Application Server advanced installation

Posted by on March 15, 2010 at 6:00 pm
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Quick instructions for OAS 64 bit installation on Linux

Infrastructure Reference

Posted by on February 15, 2010 at 10:00 am
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Useful references on PeopleSoft and PeopleSoft EPM Warehouse Infrastructure Components