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December 14, 2009 by cedwards

6 things to do after an Oracle Apps R12 install

OK, so there are a ton of things to do right after a fresh R12 install.  And before anyone says anything, I know each of my steps has multiple steps; I though 6 things made a simpler blog title, that's all. Nevertheless, below are the major tasks I think every Apps DBA should do right away before letting anyone log in.  I call these out for two … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle, Oracle Applications Tagged With: Oracle Applications DBA, Oracle DBA, Oracle E-Business Suite, R12

November 3, 2009 by cedwards

Linux is the only choice for the E-Business Suite application tier

Some single points of failure are often unnecessary with Oracle E-Business Suite. By design, application code may easily run on multiple, inexpensive x86 (or x86_64) nodes running Linux. I often see organizations spending lots of money on commercial, internally redundant application computing nodes when they could be spending far less while … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle Applications Tagged With: linux, Oracle Applications DBA, Oracle E-Business Suite

May 22, 2009 by rharwood

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...]

Filed Under: Oracle, Oracle Applications Tagged With: FRM-40501, Oracle Applications DBA, Oracle E-Business Suite

April 21, 2009 by cedwards

FNDCPASS doesn’t always use the SYSTEM password

FNDCPASS does not check the system password when used to change an applications user account. We can check this with a simple test. First, we’ll change the SYSTEM password to the default value “manager”: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Oracle Applications Tagged With: fndcpass, Oracle Applications DBA, Oracle E-Business Suite, passwords

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