This weekend signals the end of Metalink.

Some will cheer “good riddance”, and welcome with open arms the new all-singing, all-dancing, “My Oracle Support”. Others, like me, may reflect on the demise of a stalwart of Oracle’s public-facing persona’s

With it’s configurable widgets, and shiny colours, the new Oracle Support site certainly conveys a sense of modernity that simply did not exist with Metalink. But then Metalink harks… Continue reading

As alluded to in an earlier post, I have received a copy of this book from those splendid people at Packt Publishing (www.PacktPub.com) to review.

Foreword

I have several technical books by Packt within my expanding library (all paid for I hasten to add – this is most definitely the first ‘freebee’ I’ve had). Without exception they have all been excellent reads / references, but none quite… Continue reading

I know that it has been a while since my last blog posting here; pressures of tight deadlines with my current engagement have kept me surprisingly busy, coupled to a hectic time on the farm at home have meant that I’ve not had the spare time to write anything.

 However that said I do have some good news to whet ones appetite…

Packt Publishing (www.packtpub.com), who are… Continue reading

This is a brief summary on a couple of items of interest to Payroll users that are out in the latest RUP4 for EBS 11i. This information was presented at this year’s OHUG in Las Vegas. I have also posted this (as my first post) on the Oracle Contractors Network Blog

Generate Run Balance and Retro-Notification Report Performance

The first item is on the performance of the “Generate Run… Continue reading

Shame on me for not getting around to this sooner! Thank you to those who took the trouble to comment on the first part of this ‘project’ – several of you have been asking for part 2 so hopefully your wait would not have been in vain…

So, as a recap. If you have gone through the steps featured in part one of this, you should have a machine… Continue reading | 6 Comments

Oh the dilema of choice!

In just under 2 weeks time i am flying out to Las Vegas to attend this years Oracle HCM User Group conference (OHUG). I’m planning to take one of my many laptops with me so that i can do some of the following:

• Keep on-top of my email
• Keep an eye on the HRMS Aces forums (as an Admin)
• Keep

Last night i came across this facinating article Twitter meets Oracle. I won’t warble on too much about it (it is well worth a read though).
In the article, the author Lewis Cunningham demonstrates how to get your Oracle DB to generate Tweets.

In the past i have done work involving setting up the system to generate email notifications, and even sending SMS messages, upon completion of tasks… Continue reading

Looking at the notes i’d written when i did this i thought it best to break this up into 2 parts.

This first part looks at the installation and configuration of the server. Part 2 will focus on the install of R12 and the post install steps.

Right-o let me set the scene. This install is onto a 1-node-1-user machine; i.e. a laptop
I’ve done the install before, and… Continue reading | 25 Comments

Crikey! Today’s news is a bit of a shocker!

Admittedly Sun have been on shaky ground now for some time, but Oracle! Where did that one come from!

I was never an employee of Sun, but did have the good fortune to work on an excellent project for them during my time at Oracle. They were implementing the Oracle HRMS suite, and the project was… Continue reading