Tkprof

TKPROF stands for Transient Kernel Profiler.

Apex upgrade announcement!

Friends,
Got to perform an Apex upgrade from 2.2.0.00.32 to 3.1.2.00.02. The details of the upgrade and the documentation will be here soon.

R12 Financials Upgrade

I attended the R12 Financials Upgrade web conference by Oracle today morning 11AM EST. The conference was crisp, up-to-date. This was my first web conference.
Few things that I learnt are:
1) Distributed AD is a good feature and we need to try. If used with Shared Appl_Top, this feature is more productive
2) R12 upgrade creates more objects during the upgrade (in Payables, Accounting and so on) than any upgrade so far. The Optimizer Dynamic Sampling is a feature in R12 upgrade that dynamically gathers stats for those objects that are created during upgrade and are heavily queried.
3) The custom files can now be registered through OAM and are called ‘Flagged Files’. Earlier the files were listed in $APPL_TOP/admin/applcust.txt. The files are now stored in the table.
4) R12 has the largest number of files, and database objects so far in any database, understandably.

Many more features were discussed and a detailed overview will be updated to the blog very soon.

What am I doing?

Friends, I am currently trying to blog my attempts to resolve an issue that i faced during a clone. The issue was with the Java and its classes. The interesting part of the issue was its troubleshooting and the fix, of course.

Sent the article to some of my friends for review. Will update this blog as soon as i get a positive feedback.

P.S: I just finished my 10g OCA (1z0-042)!
Feeling great. Planning to take the OCP very soon.

Cheers!