At Blue Gecko, we believe that cultivating strong technical contributors is key to our own and our customers’ success. That’s why we are proud to be a part of one of our region’s premier Oracle educational programs: The University of Washington Certificate in Oracle Database … [Read more...]
Blue Gecko named to 2010 Inc. Magazine’s 5000 fastest growing companies in America!
Blue Gecko is one of the fastest-growing private companies in America for the second year in a row. An Inc. 500|5000 recipient in 2009, Blue Gecko is once again listed in Inc. Magazines’s annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list debuted in 1981 as a ranking of the 100 fastest-growing private companies in … [Read more...]
Meet Blue Gecko Face to Face at NWOUG 2010 Conference!
Chuck Edwards, JJ Ecker, Jeremiah Wilton, Rick Harwood and Ken Safranek will be attending the 2010 NWOUG Conference in Portland, OR. Stop by the Blue Gecko booth at the Business Exhibition or attend Jeremiah’s presentation and learn about "Database Deathmatch: Oracle vs. SQL Server". We look forward to seeing you at the conference. … [Read more...]
“Tech Café” – Blue Gecko Sponsored Event!
Date: June 21, 2010 4:30 pm-7:00 pm Venue: Red Lion Terrace Garden Lounge Address: 1415 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, United Google Map This will be Blue Gecko‘s second time hosting and this time they are going all out! We’ll be hosting just next door at the Red Lion’s terrace deck and Avelle/ Bag Borrow or Steal, Inc will be giving a talk as will … [Read more...]
EC2 persistent boots with pivot root
Amazon recently allowed Elastic Block Store to boot persistent images. However, there are two concerns I have with the method. * The EBS boot volumes must be EBS Snapshots, which cost more than regular EBS volumes. (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing) * The EBS boot volumes currently do not work within the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) … [Read more...]
E-Business Suite CPU patches now cumulative
Many Oracle Apps DBAs don’t feel pressure to apply E-Business Suite CPU until they are asked to expose an application node to the outside world; now there’s no excuse. If you’re an established EBS shop and you’ve never applied the EBS CPU patches for your Release 11i environment, there is quite a bit of work to get caught … [Read more...]
FRM-40501: Could not reserve record [2 tries]; Oracle Apps Record-Locking
One of your end users attempts to modify a record, and the user is prompted with a dialog box asking "Could not reserve record [2 tries]. Keep trying?" The user answers "yes" and after being prompted a few more times the user gives up. Ultimately the user gets a "FRM-40501: ORACLE error: unable to reserve record for update or delete." When … [Read more...]
What should I check after bouncing E-Business Suite?
As an Oracle Apps administrator, it's a good idea to have a punch list of things to check after your applications have been started, to ensure all services are working correctly. For Release 11i, the following steps are a good starting point. It will take a few extra minutes to work through this list, but it's certainly more aggravating to get … [Read more...]
Why should I properly close my Oracle E-Business Suite session?
We've all been there before. It's noon, and you're co-worker is telling you to tidy up - it's time to go to lunch. Your E-Business Suite session is idle, and in your haste you simply click the 'X' at the top of your browser. You know it's not the proper thing to do, but you're not sure of the implications.... What happens when I close my session … [Read more...]
Monitor the X display for E-Business Suite
Those running Oracle's E-Business Suite on Linux/UNIX environments are probably familiar with a dependency on some X display technology to render graphics. One could use a VNC Server or Xvfb, for example, to fill this need. XML Publisher and OPP depend on an X display to create rich reports/documents with images & graphics such as AP Checks, … [Read more...]