As year 2008 comes to an end I look back at stats for year 2008,  this blog had 795000 Page Hits, 370000 page views, 1800 comments and approx. 1000 feedburner subscription.
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Here is top Six posts of year 2008 (ranking by page views)

Step by Step RAC Build
1Z0-233 Dump/Questions
Instance Home Overview in R12
Install 11.5.10/11i on Linux
Difference between […]

Popularity: 9% [?]

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Oracle Clusterware (Cluster Ready Services in 10g/ Cluster Manager in 9i) - provides infrastructure that binds multiple nodes that then operate as single server. Clusterware monitors all components like instances and listeners. There are two important components in Oracle clusterware, Voting Disk and OCR (Oracle Cluster Registry).
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Voting Disk - is file that resides on shared […]

Popularity: 17% [?]

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BEA’s AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB) and Oracle’s Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) are now called as Oracle Service Bus (OSB).

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Use of Service Bus (SB):
Service Bus offers connectivity options (for standard interfaces like SOAP, messages .. and packaged applications & legacy system via adapters), messaging & routing (efficient, reliable and secure flow of data) , Transformation (data format […]

Popularity: 14% [?]

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While starting Apache (Web Server) in E-Business Suite 11i using “adapcctl.sh start“, I got below error message
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Cannot reconnect to gateway
Cause:  Application Object Library is unable to reconnect to your gateway ORACLE account after you unsuccessfully attempted to sign-on.
Action:  Check that your gateway environment variable is set correctly.
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My first attempt was to check in […]

Popularity: 12% [?]

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There are two basic methods to find out the schema passwords in a Oracle 10gAS Application Server:-
A) Steps (through the ODM tool):-
1)   Log onto the host that hosts the infrastructure tier (e.g. host is - ausable) using x-windows like Hummingbird.
2)    Log on as user “oracle” – the user that did the install.
3)   Source the infrastructure […]

Popularity: 13% [?]

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How to Migrate LDAP server to another machine with same architecture?
The following article explains simple way to install and migrate LDAP server.
I have taken two machines (host1.example.com and host2.example.com) with Oracle Enterprise Linux 4, as it is available free.  Host1 machine is already installed and running with LDAP server and now we need to […]

Popularity: 12% [?]

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Steps mentioned below are to create User with Read Only Responsibility and require fair amount of development knowledge
1. Go to $Au_TOP/resource.
2. Copy CUSTOM.pll and open the file in Form builder.
3. If you will open the package body of CUSTOM.pll in the forms builder then you will find the like below :
procedure event(event name varchar2) is
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Popularity: 11% [?]

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