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Oracle EBS R12 and TDE Tablespace Encryption

Published December 21, 2017 By Brijesh Gogia

Keeping data secure is one of the primary job of DBA. Oracle’s Transparent Data Encryption Tablespace Encryption option of Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition provides an excellent method to encrypt data at rest. This option works perfectly with Oracle EBS R12.

The TDE Tablespace Encryption option can be used to encrypt the tablespaces that store the content of your E-Business Suite application so you can encrypt the database files and any backups of these files. Good thing about TDE is you do not have to change any of your existing code as TDE is transparent to application.

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EBS Database Parameter Settings Analyzer

Published July 18, 2017 By Brijesh Gogia

All Oracle Apps DBA must have referred below Note id at least once in their career. Most of us refer it  during installation and upgrade of Oracle EBS
application to verify if we have right set if database parameters defined for the optimum performance of EBS application.

Database Initialization Parameters for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (Doc ID 396009.1)

This document has all the required database parameters which are common to all the database release and which are required by EBS application. It also contains release specific database initialization parameters for different releases like 10g, 11g, 12c etc.

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Reorg tables and indexes in Oracle EBS Applications – Best Practices

Published May 7, 2017 By Brijesh Gogia

Usually in OLTP environment like EBS Applications, tables are often get fragmented due to multiple DML activities that happens.Fragmented tables cause queries on those tables to slow down. It is very important to de-fragment this table and to reclaim the fragmented space from these objects.

For EBS we have also seen  that usually gathered statistics, indexing and proper SQL tuning is plenty to improve and maintain acceptable performance but sometime it is required to reorg the table.

One primary cause of fragmentation is that when you run delete command on the tables it delete the rows but doesn’t frees up the memory and also do not changes the high water mark.

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Oracle EBS on Oracle Cloud – The changing role of Oracle DBA

Published April 3, 2017 By Brijesh Gogia

Oracle E-Business Suite is one of the most comprehensive suite of integrated, global business applications used by many organization around the globe. Clients usually host E-Business Suite environment In-house which requires upfront investment and ongoing maintenance costs. This approach is proven to be non-scalable and non-flexible for the rapidly changing business needs. Cloud solutions are the way to go for these applications. Oracle Cloud Solutions with all their features and integrated security can handle the robust and complex architectures of the E-Business suite seamlessly. Oracle EBS on cloud can help organizations with its scalability, elasticity and performance at much lower costs.

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Output Post Processor (OPP) related issues in 11i/R12

Published November 17, 2016 By Brijesh Gogia

Concurrent processing uses the Output Post Processor (OPP) to enforce post-processing actions for concurrent requests. Post-processing actions are actions taken on concurrent request output. An example of a post-processing action is that used in publishing concurrent requests with XML Publisher.

Apps DBAs have to sometimes troubleshoot issues related to OPP. Many a times issues are related to java memory with error messages like below:

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Oracle Workflow related frequently used queries

Published April 12, 2016 By Brijesh Gogia

Below are some of the useful workflow script that we use frequently in our 11i/R12 instances

VERIFY THE WORKFLOW IMAP SETTING

set pagesize 100
set linesize 132 
set feedback off 
set verify off 
col value format a35 
col component_name format a30 
select c.component_id, c.component_name, p.parameter_id, p.parameter_name, v.parameter_value value 
from fnd_svc_comp_param_vals_v v, fnd_svc_comp_params_b p, fnd_svc_components c 
where c.component_type = 'WF_MAILER' 
and v.component_id = c.component_id and v.parameter_id = p.parameter_id and p.parameter_name in ( 'INBOUND_SERVER','ACCOUNT', 'REPLYTO') 
order by c.component_id, c.component_name,p.parameter_name;
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