Needed: system requirements, recommendations & best practices

I realize that this is just a beta release but I think it'd be nice if the system requirements for this VS.NET add-in were clearly defined in a single post/page.
For example, Christian Shay's reply to "Oracle Release Requirements" by [170516] indicates that "For the beta release you should be able to use Oracle Database version 8.1.7 or later." However, Christian's reply in the "Oracle DB 8.1.7 connection problems" thread started by [151631] indicates that "you'd need to upgrade to at least 8.1.7.4.1 for it to work."
Which is it??? I'm using Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.2.0 and I don't want to install this add-in if it's not going to work with my current environment. I realize I can download 10g but my employer is using 8.1.7.2 and that's my target DB for now.
In browsing this forum, I've read a number of posts with suggestions (such as installing the version 10 client in a new Oracle Home, etc.) and I think it'd be nice to see a basic set of requirements/recommendations/best practices in a single place for all to read.

Hi
Can you also include the following in the FAQ?
1) ODP.NET if installed prior to this beta version - what is the best practice ? De-install it prior to getting this installed etc ..
2) As multiple Oracle home's have become the NORM these days - this being a Client only should probably be non-intrusive and non-invasive.. Hope that is getting addressed.
3) Is this a pre-cursor to the future happenings like some of the App-Server evolving to support .NET natively and so on??
4) Where is BPEL in this scheme of things? Is that getting added to this also so that Eclipse and .NET VS 2003 developers can use some common Webservice framework??
Regards
Sundar
It was interesting to see options for changing the spelling of Webservice [ the first one was WEBSTER]..

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Oracle SLA Metrics and System Level Metrics Best Practices

I hope this is the right forum...
Hey everyone,
This is what I am looking for. We have several SLA's setup and we have defined many Business Metrics and we are trying to map them to System level metrics. One key area for us is Oracle. I was wondering is there is a best practice guide out there for SLA's when dealing with Oracle or even better, System Level Metric best practices.
Any help would be ideal please.

Hi
Can you also include the following in the FAQ?
1) ODP.NET if installed prior to this beta version - what is the best practice ? De-install it prior to getting this installed etc ..
2) As multiple Oracle home's have become the NORM these days - this being a Client only should probably be non-intrusive and non-invasive.. Hope that is getting addressed.
3) Is this a pre-cursor to the future happenings like some of the App-Server evolving to support .NET natively and so on??
4) Where is BPEL in this scheme of things? Is that getting added to this also so that Eclipse and .NET VS 2003 developers can use some common Webservice framework??
Regards
Sundar
It was interesting to see options for changing the spelling of Webservice [ the first one was WEBSTER]..

External System Authentication Credentials Best practice

We are in the process of an 5.0 upgrade.
We are using NTLM as our authentication source to get teh users and the groups and authenticate against the source. So currently we only have the NT userid, group info(NT domain password is not stored).
We need to get user credentials to other systems/applications so that we can pass that on the specfic applications when we search/crawl or integrate with those apps/systems.
We were thinking of getting the credentials(App userid and password) for other applications by developing a custom Profile Web service to gather the information specific to these users. However, don't know if external application password is secured when retrieving from the external repository via a PWS and storing into the Portal database.
Is this the best approach to take to gather the above information? If not, please recommend the best practice to follow.
Alternatively, can have the users enter the external system credentials by having them edit their user profile. However, this approach is not preferred.
If we can't store the user credential to the external apps, we won't eb able to enhance the user experience when doing a search/or click-thorugh to tthe other applications.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Vanita

Hi Vanita,
So your solution sounds fine - however, it might be easier to use an SSO Token or the Plumtree UserID in your external applications as a difinitive authentication token.
For example if you have some external application that requires a username and password, then if you are in a portlet view of the application the application should be able to take the userid plumtree sends it to authenticate that it is the correct user. You should limit this sort of password bypass to traffic being gatewayed by the portal (i.e. coming from the portal server only).
If you want to write a Profile Web Service, the data the gets stored in the Plumtree Database is exactly what the Profile Web Service send it as the value for a particular attribute. For example if your PWS tells Plumtree that the APP1UserName and APP1Password for user My Domain\Akash is Akash and password then that is what we save. If your PWS encrypts the password using some 2-way encryption before hand, then that is what we will save. These properties are simply attached to the user, and can be sent to different portlets.
Hope this helps,
-aki-

Oracle EPM 11.1.2.3 Hardware Requirement and best practice

Hello,
Could anyone help me find the Minimum Hardware Requirement for the Oracle EPM 11.1.2.3 on the Windows 2008R2 Server? What's best practice to get the optimum performance after the default configuration i.e. modify or look for the entries that need to be modified based on the hardware resource (CPU and RAM) and number of users accessing the Hyperion reports/files.
Thanks,
Yash

Why would you want to know the minimum requirements, surely it would be best to have optimal server specs, the nearest you are going to get is contained in the standard deployment guide - About Standard Deployment
Saying that it is not possibly to provide stats based on nothing, you would really need to undertake a technical design review/workshop as there many topics to cover before coming up with server information.
Cheers
John

Need SAP Plant Maintenance Best Practice

Hi All,
Kindly tell me any link for SAP Best Practice for Plant Maintenance.Kindly reply me urgent.
I shall be very great full to you.
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OWB - Set-Up Recommendations/Best Practices

OWB Version 10.2.0.2.0/8
What is the recommended configuration, in terms of projects, locations, control centers and configurations, when you have numerous development and test environments (approx. 25)
The configuration should be flexible enough to allow you to easily branch the code base and also be controlled so that the merging of branches can easily be pushed to all projects in order to keep a consistent view across each project.
Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

I'm sorry I don't have any answers for you but I heartily support your request and hope you get some responses.
I would like to add that I have tried to get my arms around the 10gR2 version in terms of how the different repositories interact with the users/servers/instances/etc. Sort of a Concepts Manual like there is for the database.
It's nice to know the product has all these neat features (they sound neat anyway) but they are relatively useless if we don't know how to best use them in our system architectural designs.
I have tried to wade through the Users Guide but that reads like a Reference not a How To.
I wish you luck for all of us.
Where are the Product Managers when we really need them?
-gary

Oracle - SharePoint 2010 Integration Recommendations/Best Practice

Hi,
The client has running oracle based application wherein :-
1) A SQL query is fired to a view
2) The view actually queries different tables (count=10) and fetches the data of different columns.
3) In front-end , custom forms are created using OAF which shows the data of of the required columns in a grid-view (search results).
The oracle version used is “Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production”
The above scenario needs to be implemented in SharePoint 2010. I thought of below mentioned design scenarios in SharePoint 2010 :-
Creating a BDC model to integrate Oracle tables (10) data in SharePoint i.e. creating 10 external lists, storing the data in SP and in front-end using .Net C# coding ,using SP queries for diff lists to manipulate
the data and show in grid format. Even if we start full crawl , data will be indexed & crawled but since search is based on different filters/parameters , hence query-based search will be required. How to make query in diff lists in SP for a Search parameter
Directly querying the Oracle DB using BCS
without storing the data in SP – Creating .Net forms - Is it possible ? In this case , each time a query will be fired for each and every search - Performance Hit ?? !!
Pure .Net – Reading data from Oracle DB using Oracle Data Provider for .Net C# & using SharePoint as an interface – How security will be managed and how much valid this solution is ?
Third Party Tools (Telerik Web-parts & ORM) – Whether it can be used for the requirements ?
Kindly share your valuable thoughts and ideas and let me know the recommended design for this scenario !!!!
Vipul Jain

I'd go for building a SharePoint application page or a web part that uses .NET leveraging the Oracle data provider to query Oracle. BCS is great for indexing the info and you can still do that as well, but the UI will look like a SharePoint list and it
sounds as though that's not what you're after.
Kind regards,
Margriet Bruggeman
Lois & Clark IT Services
web site: http://www.loisandclark.eu
blog: http://www.sharepointdragons.com

Need to know the best practice for converting string to double

I have a string and want to convert to double if it is a valid number, else want to keep as it is. There can be couple of ways doing it and I want to know which one is best if I have lots of strings, specially from performance point of view.
1) Use Double.parseDouble(myString) and catching Number format exception to detect it is not a number. One of my colleague said it does not give good performance because of exception catching,
2) Use of org.apache.commons.lang.math.NumberUtils.isNumber() and if it is true then only parse it - so don't rely on exception.
I did some performance testing - putting it in a loop and trying out for 2 scenarios - one loop for proper numeric value string and another for non-numeric. What I found out was if strings are not proper then parseDouble() is taking long time (because of exception catching) and in that case using NumberUtils.isNumber() makes sense.
Would like to hear expert views on this.
Thanks
Manisha

If you need it as a double you must convert it to a double and catch the exception. This means that testing it first is a waste of time in the case when the test succeeds - did your colleague think of that?
Catching the exception is possibly slower than the test. Whether this is significant depends on the relative timings of the test and catching the exception, and also on the expected error rate. If this is below about 40% I suggest your colleague is talking through his esteemed hat.
And of course the best test by far is the conversion itself. Using any other test runs the risk of its rules being different from those applied by the conversion.
In any case you are obliged to write the code that catches the exception. You're not obliged to write the pre-test code.
My personal rule for efficiency is to minimize lines of code until hard evidence to the contrary proves that further improvement is required.

Advice required on best practices to prolong battery life

I will take delivery of a MacBook Pro 15.4 2.6Ghz with 2Mb RAM in two weeks time. I am upgrading from my current iMac G5 and will use the MBP with an Apple 23 inch Cinema Display as my main desktop machine. I decided on this configuration as it will allow me excellent desktop power with the bonus of portability. The MBP will be on my desk, plugged into mains power for 95% of the time. Can anyone advise me as to the best way to prolong the life of the battery as I am pretty sure that leaving the battery constantly charging in this way is not good practice. I would appreciate any advice which anyone can offer. Thank you.

The best way to maintain good battery performance and longevity is to regularly use your MBP on battery. I generally recommend using laptops in battery for on average around an hour per day along with a calibration every 4-8 weeks. What I do is to use it on battery when lightly using it in front of the TV during the late evenings.
What complicated matters for yourself is that you're going to be using an external display so your MBP will be all wired up like someone stuck in The Matrix.

Recommended best practice to fetch detail block based on procedure

HI
I am creating a detail block (Dept)based on procedure which will be populated from the value from master block 'Emp'.
For example,
Detail block 'Dept' will be populated by calling procedure populate_detail(:emp.empno in number,dept.deptno out number) .
But what are the triggers I need to call to populate detail block and at which level?
I was thinking to call a WHEN-MOUSE-DOUBLECLICK on master block 'Emp' level to populate the detail block 'Dept' by calling the procedure and passing emp.empno as the parameter whenever the user moves from one master record to another.
Please advise.
Thanks in advance.

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ORACLE 11g Database Parameters (Datawarehouse) - Recommended/Best Practice

Hi all
What are the generally recommeded database parameter settings for a a VLDB datawarehouse implementation with regards to:
- Online Redo log file size
- Number of Redo log file

Fahd Mirza wrote:
In My data warehouse of size just above 2TB, I have three tablespaces for three different schemas. One is for staging, other is for history and the other is for analysis and some near real time data. I use 3 bigfile table spaces of sizes 700G. The version of database is 11gR1 on Solaris 5.10, and I use ASM.
Fahd,
What's your backup startegy ?
Have you enabled "change tracking" so that rman can use proper incremental backups, or do you let rman scan the entire 700GB file to identify changed blocks, or do you use some type of "split mirror"/"snapshot" method offered by the hardware vendor ?
What's your resilience/recovery strategy ?
The OP is talking about lots of "nologging" activities - is your system similar, or do you force logging and run with a standby to protect yourself against failure.
(I kow I'm addressing the questions to you, but they're really there to prompt the OP to think about some of the related issues, and you may have some good answers that will help him/her.)
Regards
Jonathan Lewis

What is the recommended 'Best Practice' for retaining object instances

I have a window that is constructed in Interface Builder such that the 'File Owner' points to an instance of one of my classes. In this particular case, the entire interaction is between the window and the class instance (which has a file opened to a serial device with a radio at the other end which is being controlled).
Thee are other components of the application that have no interest in what goes on between the window and my class instance.
I'm also using 'garbage collection' memory management.
I can create the class instance which creates the window from the XIB definition and this works well. My understanding of what is happening in the background is that the application is keeping a reference to the window which in turn is keeping the 'File Owner' reference to my class instance. As long as the window is open, my class instance is also kept alive.
Now to my question: Is it OK to rely on this mechanism to keep my class instance alive, or should I also be retaining a pointer to my class instance from some other part of my program myself?
Thanks
Susan

Aussie Susan wrote:
Thanks for this etresoft - I've always maintained my own pointers, but an 'accident' while I was debugging some code (where I didn't set my own pointer but the class instance still remained, I'm assuming because of this mechanism) got me thinking as to whether this was a mechanism that could be relied on.
If you do some research on exactly how you are doing those connections, it may be safe. For example, when you call "NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:toTarget:withObject:" with a target of self, you can immediately release self because the thread will retain the pointer to self. When the thread goes away, the object that spawned it will be released. This is very handy.
I only do this because the documentation explicitly says this is what happens. In your case, I'm not so sure because you are dealing with Interface Builder elements such as the Window class. I'm not entirely sure what happens with a "one shot" window. There are details and options in Interface Builder that could impact your pointer lifetimes. It is safe only if you do the research and prove to yourself it is safe.
I only mentioned the garbage collection aspect because I knew that the retain/release calls do nothing (thanks for the reminder Orangekay) and I've stopped using them in my code. However, I wanted to avoid the "your instance will stay around until you 'release' it" answer.
You might want to consider leaving them in. If you leave them in, then the same code can be used in a non-garbage collected environment.

Require official Oracle Best Practices about PSU patches

A customer complained about the following
Your company statements are not clear...
On your web page - http://www.oracle.com/security/critical-patch-update.html
The following is stated!
Critical Patch Update
Fixes for security vulnerabilities are released in quarterly Critical Patch Updates (CPU), on dates announced a year in advance and published on the Oracle Technology Network. The patches address significant security vulnerabilities and include other fixes that are prerequisites for the security fixes included in the CPU.
The major products patched are Oracle Database Server, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise Tools, PeopleSoft CRM, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, JD Edwards OneWorld XE, Oracle WebLogic Suite, Oracle Communications and Primavera Product Suite.
Oracle recommends that CPUs be the primary means of applying security fixes to all affected products as they are released more frequently than patch sets and new product releases.
BENEFITS
* Maximum Security—Vulnerabilities are addressed through the CPU in order of severity. This process ensures that the most critical security holes are patched first, resulting in a better security posture for the organization.
* Lower Administration Costs—Patch updates are cumulative for many Oracle products. This ensures that the application of the latest CPU resolves all previously addressed vulnerabilities.
* Simplified Patch Management—A fixed CPU schedule takes the guesswork out of patch management. The schedule is also designed to avoid typical "blackout dates" during which customers cannot typically alter their production environments.
PROGRAM FEATURES
* Cumulative versus one-off patches—The Oracle Database Server, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle Communications Suite and Oracle WebLogic Suite patches are cumulative; each Critical Patch Update contains the security fixes from all previous Critical Patch Updates. In practical terms, the latest Critical Patch Update is the only one that needs to be applied if you are solely using these products, as it contains all required fixes. Fixes for other products, including Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise Tools, PeopleSoft CRM, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, and JD Edwards OneWorld XE are released as one-off patches, so it is necessary to refer to previous Critical Patch Update advisories to find all patches that may need to be applied.
* Prioritizing security fixes—Oracle fixes significant security vulnerabilities in severity order, regardless of who found the issue—whether the issue was found by a customer, a third party security researcher or by Oracle.
* Sequence of security fixes—Security vulnerabilities are first fixed in the current code line. This is the code being developed for a future major release of the product. The fixes are scheduled for inclusion in a future Critical Patch Update. However, fixes may be backported for inclusion in future patch sets or product releases that are released before their inclusion in a future Critical Patch Update.
* Communication policy for security fixes—Each Critical Patch Update includes an advisory. This advisory lists the products affected by the Critical Patch Update and contains a risk matrix for each affected product.
* Security alerts—Security alerts provide a notification designed to address a single bug or a small number of bugs. Security Alerts have been replaced by scheduled CPUs since January 2005. Unique or dangerous threats can still generate Security Alert email notifications through MetaLink and the Oracle Technology Network.
Nowhere in that statement is the Patch Set Update even mentioned. If Oracle intends to recommend to all customers that Patch Set Updates are the recommended means of Patching for Security and Functionality then it should be stated so here!
Please clarify!
Where can I find the current information so that I can use to Official Oracle statement as a reference for my Enterprise Practices and Standards document? The individual patch package references you are giving me do not state Oracle recommended Best Practice, they only speak to the specific patch package they describe. These do not help me in making an Enterprise statement of Practices and Standards.
I need to close the process out to capture a window of availability for Practices and Standards approval.
Do we have any Best Practice document about PSU patches available for customers?

cnawrati wrote:
A customer complained about the following
Your company statements are not clear...
On your web page - http://www.oracle.com/security/critical-patch-update.html
Who is the "your" to which you are referring?
<snip>
Nowhere in that statement is the Patch Set Update even mentioned. If Oracle intends to recommend to all customers that Patch Set Updates are the recommended means of Patching for Security and Functionality then it should be stated so here!Um. OK
Please clarify!
Of whom are you asking for a clarification?
Where can I find the current information so that I can use to Official Oracle statement as a reference for my Enterprise Practices and Standards document? The individual patch package references you Who is the "you" to which you refer?
are giving me do not state Oracle recommended Best Practice, they only speak to the specific patch package they describe. These do not help me in making an Enterprise statement of Practices and Standards.
I need to close the process out to capture a window of availability for Practices and Standards approval.
Be our guest.
Do we What do you mean "we", Kemosabi?
have any Best Practice document about PSU patches available for customers?This is a very confusing posting, but overall it looks like you are under the impression that this forum is some kind of channel for communicating back to Oracle Crop anything that happens to be on your mind about their corporate web site and/or policies and practices. Please be advised that this forum is simply a platform provided BY Oracle Corp as a peer operated user support group. No one here is responsible for anything on any Oracle web site. No one here is responsible for any content anywhere in the oracle.com domain, outside of their own personal posting on this forum. In other words, you can complain all you want about Oracle's policy, practice, and support, but "there's no one here but us chickens."

Best practice recommendation for locale-specific text/labels

What is the recommended best practice approach to supporting locale-specific
text for labels, messages when using Jdeveloper to create applets and applications.
I am familiar with resource bundles, but wonder if there is a better approach within
JDeveloper. Are there any plans to enhance this area in 9.0.3?

I am familiar with resource bundles, but wonder if there is a better approach within
JDeveloper. Resourcebundles are the java-native way of handling locale-specific texts.
Are there any plans to enhance this area in 9.0.3? For BC4J, in 9.0.3, all control-hints and custom-validation messages (new feature) are generated in resource-bundles rather than xml-files to make it easier to "extend" for multiple locales.

Updating of data in APO DP - what is 'best practice'?

I am using APO DP V5.
I am using XI as an integration broker to receive data from external sources which is to be loaded into APO DP.
There are of course different ways of doing this, for example:
1. From XI, pass an XML message which then loads a delta queue in APO BW, loads an InfoCube, which is then used to load data into an APO planning area
2. From XI, pass the data into BAPI parameters, which are then used to directly update data in an APO planning area via a BAPI call (eg BAPI PlanningBookAPS)
What is the recommended 'best practice' here?
Thanks,
Bob Austin

Hi Bob,
I do not have experience in SCM 5.0 and XI but shall give my views from general experience.
What kind of data you are loading in APO DP is the driver for the two ways mentioned by you.
Traditionally (older versions of SCM/APO and non XI interface) Sales History is captured into an Infocube and then loaded to DP Planning Area. The reason - you normally use this Infocube for generation of CVCs which is the Master Data in APO DP. Moreover you will use this data to generate Proportional Factors for disaggregation of Statistically generated Forecast at aggregate level to the lowest level. So there is a requirement for loading Historical data from external systems to APO DP via an Infocube.
The other kind of data would be market and sales forecast. This is a timeseries data which need to be directly loaded to the Planning Area for immediate Interactive Planning. In that case rather than putting it in an Infocube and then periodically loading the data from the Infocube to the Planning Area, its better to load the data directly in the Planning Area. There the BAPI will be a good option.
Hope this gives some ideas to your query.
Thanks,
Somnath

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