Next session of our online Oracle Apps DBA training (11i & R12/12i) is now available from 03 Jan 2008. This course in available via web conference (weekends or late evening) with hands on exercise on installation/patching/cloning. 
Key topics in training for Oracle Apps DBA’s
- Architecture, File System and important files
- Installation of 11i/R12
- Patching
- Cloning
- Upgrade
- AD utility 
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Release 11g SOA Suite, Webcenter & Jdeveloper is now available here
Key point for 11g SOA Suite / Jdeveloper & Webcenter
– This 11g preview version include all three SOA Suite, Webcenter and Jdeveloper
– There are two version Windows Install (with jdk) & Base Install (without jdk for other O.S.)
– You need Oracle Database (express, ee) and JDK 5+ (only for […]

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1. Server chaining feature in OID is introduced in version 10.1.4.0.1
2. You use server chaining feature to map user/group/entries sitting in third party LDAP directory (AD, iPlanet) and access them through OID. This way you can avoid synchronization of entry (identity data) between OID and third party LDAP Server.
3. Currently (as of version 10.1.4.0.1) only Microsoft Active […]

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This post covers step by step guide to install Oracle Application Server infrastructure Tier 10.1.4.
 Download Software and unzip it to your harddisk, this will create two directory Disk1 & Disk2
Go to Disk1 and start Installer by running ./runInstaller
Installer failed at it was looking for must be redhat-Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4, redhat-2.1, redhat-3, SuSE-9 or […]

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On popular demand from readers, I am going to cover Workflow Notification Mailer in Oracle Applications R12/12i.
Workflow notification mailer setup in R12 is similar to 11i ( In both release 11i (OWF.H and higher in 11i) & R12 are Java Mailer)
* Previous version of Notification Mailer in 11i was based on C also called as […]

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Log files are useful in troubleshooting issues in Oracle Applications. Here is the list of Log file location in Oracle Applications for Startup/Shutdown, Cloning, Patching, DB & Apps Listener and various components in Apps R12/12i:
A. Startup/Shutdown Log files for Application Tier in R12
Instance Top is new TOP added in R12 (to read more click here)
–Startup/Shutdown error message […]

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–Oracle Identity Management is component of Fusion Middleware 
–Various products in Oracle IdM (Identity Management) Suite are
i) Oracle IdM Infrastructure and Oracle Identity Federation
ii) Oracle Access Manager
iii) Oracle Identity Manager
iv) Oracle Virtual Directory
v) Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On Suite
In today’s post we will cover installation of Oracle Identity Federation and Oracle IdM (Identity Management)  Infrastructure  
– You can download 10.1.4.X […]

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