Looking ahead to OpenWorld 2010, and coming to terms with the fact that no matter what I do, I’m going to miss out on some interesting content. And sleep. Going to miss out on LOTS of sleep.
Don’t you just love it when random networking errors spice up an otherwise routine large EBS patching run?
Yeah, me neither.
Rambling about Oracle and VMware. I don’t do “opinion pieces” very often, and after reading this, you’ll better understand why. 
A handful of interesting links, while I wait for my mental content logjam to break.
A change to the package definition of GL_SECURITY_PKG in E-Business Suite Release 12.1.2 may result in unexpected behavior when the package is called from a non-APPS schema.
An illustration of the difference between running opmnctl and adopmnctl.sh in EBS R12
I went digging into a problem with EXPLAIN PLAN in and R12 Vision instance, and dug deep enough to find an antique.
Trying to start a database listener that doesn’t exist generates log files. In older versions of the database, it’s just one file, but what about in 11g, with its fancy Automatic DIagnostic Repository?
Sometimes, even on the 3rd or 4th run-through of a database upgrade test, it’s possible to miss something. Practice makes perfect.
A quick overview of what happens when individual E-Business Suite patches are merged with admrgpch.
