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Recently we were working on an issue that was occurring to developers in Oracle Application Express’s (APEX) Page Designer. When we would attempt to validate or save changes in a PL/SQL block, the progress indicator spinner would spin for some…
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We were recently migrating one of our non-production databases to Oracle ASM. Previously, we used the Linux files system EXT4. We wanted the flexibility of Oracle ASM as well some of the IO performance gains. At a high level, we…
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Problem Recently I was working in a non-production Oracle E-Business Suite environment. This was a clone based on a fresh installation. I had completed some patching and performed the final adop cutover/finalize phase. Logging into the application and attempted to…
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The Quest conference, Blueprint 4D 2023 was at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas this year. This was my first time attending a conference that I had to travel to since before Covid. This was also my first Quest conference…
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The Chicago Oracle Users Group met in person on April 19th, 2023. We had three presentations, food, and some interesting discussions. Location Our meeting location was at my alma mater, Elmhurst University. We had a very large space in the…
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Problem A few weeks ago, we ran into an issue with our Oracle E-Business Suite Output Post Processor (OPP). It was determined that the OPP queues had to be rebuilt. This is a straight forward procedures that requires a maintenance…
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The Oracle E-Business Suite Electronic Technical Reference Manual (eTRM) is online repository of database object definitions and their dependencies. It’s used by the technical teams that support or implement Oracle E-Business Suite systems. An online application that was available with…
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The Midwest and Chicago Oracle Users Group met on September 23rd, 2022 for their annual joint conference at the Innovation Lab in Deerfield. We had eight speakers including Oracle ACEs/Alumni and Oracle product managers. The sessions varied but crossed both…
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The Silly Little Oracle Benchmark (SLOB) is an I/O testing toolkit for the Oracle database. It is provided by Kevin Closson. I used this recently to test the I/O differences between Oracle ASM and Linux EXT4 disks. Background I’m using…
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I was working on a project to install the Oracle Grid Infrastructure (19c). This would be on an existing Oracle Linux database server. The database on this server used the Linux EXT4 file system. We wanted to install Oracle Grid…
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