All posts by Masroof Ahmad

Validating and rebuilding large and fragmented indexes in 11i

You can have various methods to identify the large or fragmented indexes in 11i or you can just configure the Oracle Alert to receive a mail. This alert is scheduled to check the situation periodically say daily at mid night. The alert ‘Indexes too large or fragmented‘ is pre-defined alert. There are three possible ways […]

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Error while running SSO registration on 11i : txkrun.pl -script=SetSSOReg

While integrating Oracle E-Business Suite (Apps/11i) with Oracle Single Sign-On server (SSO) on one of test Instances, I received error like “Errors encountered running -txkSetSSOReg.pl“. Looking at error message carefully (check below), It was easy to figure out that value of Profile Option “Application framework Agent” was wrong. . Error Message on Screen applmgr@midtier>txkrun.pl -script=SetSSOReg […]

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Upgrade overview for Oracle Database to 11g Release 1 (11.1)

Steps mentioned in this post is overview of Oracle database upgrade from 8i, 9i or 10g to 11g Rel 1 i.e. 11.1.X.X.X (Step by step Oracle 10g upgrade to 11g including pointer to documentation coming soon…) Things good to know for 11g Database Upgrade 1. Oracle 11g Database software must be installed in new ORACLE_HOME 2. If you […]

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Oracle is charging employees 100$ for Open World Presentations

I just can’t believe that company like Oracle is charging their Employees 100$ for Oracle Open World Presentations (check here) .  Can you (as an Employer) think of charging your employees for training, seminars or presentations ??

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Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications

 Mobile Supply Chain Applications allows you to perform common warehouse and shop floor transactions from any location in the manufacturing facility through the use of handheld devices. These include PDAs, handheld Radio Frequency (RF) units etc. This Application enables real-time interfaces to Oracle Applications through user interfaces. You can access the system from anywhere RF […]

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Oracle Database – RMAN overview

Solution available for backup and recovery of Oracle Database i) RMAN (Recovery Manager) ii) User Managed backup (using o.s. commands like cp, copy..) . RMAN (Recovery Manager) – is Oracle Database client that perform backup & restore task of oracle database. . Components in RMAN 1. Target Database – is Oracle database which you want […]

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Security (Users, Groups, Accounts) in Oracle Content Server (ECM/UCM)

Oracle Content Server is main component in Oracle’s Enterprise Content Management/ Universal Content Management (ECM/UCM – Stellent). This post covers Security (User, Group and Accounts) Management in Oracle Content Server. 1. Content Server offers two levels of security on Content Item a) Security Groups (Required) b) Accounts (optional) –If Accounts are in use, Account becomes primary permission […]

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Oracle launches Beehive – Collaboration Service

In May 2008, Oracle launched Oracle Beehive to selected customers (It was announced to everyone in Oracle Open World). Oracle Beehive is an Integrated Collaboration Suite with eMail, Messaging, Calendar, Conference and other collaborative Services .   I know you are going to say that Oracle already had solution in this domain (Collaboration) –  I agree, last year I worked on Oracle […]

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Configure Apache (Oracle HTTP Server) with Stellent Content Server (UCM) – Part II

Yesterday We saw Oracle Content Server (Repository and Core Services for Universal Content Management) installation, We used Apache (Oracle HTTP Server) as Web Server and Oracle as Database.   We selected configuration to Web Server and database with Content Server Installation so lets try to login into Oracle Content Server. Use http ://serverName:webPort/server_alias  where –ServerName (WebServer Hostname) – innowave03.com […]

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Oracle UCM Content Server Installation on Linux : Step by Step Doc – Part I

After overview of Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM from Stellent) here, today’s post covers Installation of Oracle Content Server (Repository for UCM – Web Content Management, Document Management, Record Management ….). Content Server is key component of UCM which contains repository of UCM (solution from Stellent).  . Assumptions with Content Server (repository for UCM) Installation 1. Database […]

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