Newbie with Common Best Pratice questions

I swear I have looked through the Oracle docs but have not found
the answers. These are a few burning questions I have. I have
a dev system: Redhat 7.2, Single 80GB HD, and 1GB of ram. I am
using 9i for now but may move back to 8iR3. The application is
a small database with usage similar to that of a data warehouse
(three users, 80000 records per table, Record size 128, 2000
Tables Not my scheme).
1) Should the DB_DOMAIN contain the machine Name? IE (M1)
M1.sales.US.ORacle.com. So full name would be
ORCL01.M1.Sales.US.Oracle.com, and ORCL02.M1.Sales.US.Oracle.com?
2) Whats up with JRE? My DB runs 200MB of JRE. If I run the
Change Management Pack, or a OEM Repository this can go as high
as 800+MB. Is this normal? Is this the same on Sun and NT
(jrew) or just a limit of LINUX?
3) Why do I need an OEM Repository to run the Export and Import
tool?
4)If I use an OEM Repository should it exist in the same
instance as a DB already on the machine, on a new Instance, or
on a separate machine? I know separate machines would be best
but it would require another licensee that I can't afford.
5) Why Can I not select the OLAP tools in the DBCA? I have
enterprise but it will never install.
6) If I did get OLAP running would it be better to have it in
its own instance or in the same instance as my primary
database? Does the OLAP rely on the jre like the other tools?
I have been told OLAP in 9i is Views and other tricks not stored
cubes and rollups can I create standard cubes and rollups on a
scheduled basis (only asking this because I have been unable to
get OLAP running).
7) Is DBSNMP needed for the agent to work if I only use OEM and
no snmp tools?
8) Is it better to use LDAP (Oracle Internet Directory) on such
a small system?
9) If I had a RAID5 Array would this be enough to stop
contention or should I put data on a RAID, index on IDE 1
w/mirror, and systems on scsi drive.
Thanks for any answers. I am sure they are in a FAQ some where
but I have been unable to find it I someone could point me to
good tech FAQ I would love it.
Thanks Again
A

try posting them in the various newsgroups as well:
comp.databases.oracle.server
comp.databases.oracle.tools
comp.databases.oracle.misc
you may have better luck there.
hth

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Once you have configured Logic which are takes about
3 minutes (and only has to be done once)
and set up the keyboard which takes 30 seconds.
(this has to be done once for each session)
you plug your keyboard into your audio interface then
Hit Record
that is the whole list, two words.
Once it is in Logic, you have many way to edit it
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easier to manipulate and there are more
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It really is a complete setup.
But at any rate I'm going to do some more research on
another scenario, i.e. what about MAC and Cubase? As
you may know Yamaha just acquired Cubase..
I dont think I would be the best to comment on that.
Maybe ask one of the Gurus on the unofficial
website for Cubase, The Cubinator.
Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
you've been very helpful - thanks again
cheers,
Roya
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Pro you dont need another computer. If you
wanta desktop whatever reasons I understand
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They are the first 6 keys (top row/left to right)
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>
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p_result_message := hr_utility.get_message;
WHEN OTHERS THEN
p_result_flag := 'E';
p_result_message := hr_utility.get_message;
fnd_message.set_name('PER','FFU10_GENERAL_ORACLE_ERROR');
fnd_message.set_token('2',substr(sqlerrm,1,200));
fnd_msg_pub.add;
p_result_message := fnd_msg_pub.get_detail;
After executing the PL/SQL in java
We have written some thing similar to
orclStmt.execute();
OAExceptionUtils.checkErrors (txn);
String resultFlag = orclStmt.getString(provide the resultflag bind no);
if ("E".equalsIgnoreCase(resultFlag)){
String resultMessage = orclStmt.getString(provide the resultMessage bind no);
orclStmt.close();
throw new OAException(resultMessage, OAException.ERROR);
It safely shows the message to the user with all the data in the page.
We have been using this construct for a long time for all our projects. They are all working as expected.
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SAP Adapter Best Practice Question for Deployment to Clustered Environment

I have a best practices question on the iway Adapters around deployment into a clustered environment.
According to the documentation, you are supposed to run the installer on both nodes in the cluster but configure on just the first node. See below:
Install Oracle Application Adapters 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.3.0) on both machines.
Configure a J2CA configuration as a database repository on the first machine.
Perform the required changes to the ra.xml and weblogic-ra.xml files before deployment.
This makes sense to me because once you deploy the adapter rar in the next step it the appropriate rar will get staged and deployed on both nodes in the cluster.
What is the best practice for the 3rdParty adapter directory on the second node? The installer lays it down with the adapter rar and all. Since we only configure the adapter on node 1, the directory on node 2 will remain with the default installation files/values not the configured ones. Is it best practice to copy node 1's 3rdParty directory to node 2 once configured? If we leave node 2 with the default files/values, I suspect this will lead to confusion to someone later on who is troubleshooting because it will appear it was never configured correctly.
What do folks typically do in this situation? Obviously everything works to leave it as is, but it seems strange to have the two nodes differ.

What is the version of operating system. If you are any OS version lower than Windows 2012 then you need to add one more voter for quorum.
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Best pratices for GATP by SAP

Hi all,
I am not able to download best pratices for GATP by SAP from http://help.sap.com/bp_scmv250/BBLibrary/HTML/ATP_EN_DE.htm. Seems the documents are removed. Can some one who already downloaded share the same with me?
Also can you provide working links for best pratices for SNP and PP/DS?
Thankyou,
Ram

Hello Ram
Please check this wiki page - it has good content and some useful links
APO-GATP General Information - Supply Chain Management (SCM) - SCN Wiki
and
Find out more on RDS solution for GATP at : http://service.sap.com/rds-gatp
if you search http://service.sap.com/bestpractices you will find a documents about best practice in GATP. The help.sap.com for GATP is a good resource too to start with as well.
Also you can read below blog written by me
Global Available To Promise (GATP) Overview
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