Category Archives: EBS

Resolving a pesky ORA-12545 during EBS patching

Don’t you just love it when random networking errors spice up an otherwise routine large EBS patching run?

Yeah, me neither.

Weekend mumblings: Oracle and VMware

Rambling about Oracle and VMware. I don’t do “opinion pieces” very often, and after reading this, you’ll better understand why. ;-)

Small change to GL_SECURITY_PKG in EBS 12.1.2

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.

EBS R12 nugget: The difference between adopmnctl.sh and opmnctl

An illustration of the difference between running opmnctl and adopmnctl.sh in EBS R12

Old PLAN_TABLE in EBS Vision

I went digging into a problem with EXPLAIN PLAN in and R12 Vision instance, and dug deep enough to find an antique.

An overview of merging patches in E-Business Suite

A quick overview of what happens when individual E-Business Suite patches are merged with admrgpch.

A sampling of R12 AOL and database object changes

A high-level summary of changes to EBS database objects and AOL entities after an upgrade from 11i to R12.

Friday mumblings: VanOUG, 11gR2, and EBS

Random notes about the March 2010 VanOUG meeting presentations

32-bit to 64-bit database migration tips: OLAP upgrade

Notes on upgrading OLAP workspaces when migrating a database from 32-bit to 64-bit Linux.

Accessing EBS R12 forms when the HTML interface is unavailable

A short blurb on the method and limitations of launching the EBS R12 Forms interface “manually,” without going through the HTML interface.