NEWS FLASH: Oracle R12 Applications DBA Field Guide Now Available

As readers of this blog, you may have been wondering if we were just a flash in the pan....I am here to state that we are not!  Our lack of posts in May - July were due to our activities with our latest project, the second edition of a book titled Oracle R12 Applications DBA Field Guide.

The OAUG will publish a press release this week about the guide.  I am enclosing the full press release in this post. 

Thanks for your patience with the blog. We will once again work towards providing you great tips to help you survive in the field.

Best Regards,
Elke


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NOW AVAILABLE: Oracle R12 Applications DBA Field Guide
CONTACT: Elke Phelps in partnership with the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG)
WEB SITE: See publications at www.coquitechandpress.com
EMAIL: services@coquitechandpress.com or Cindy Force, cforce@oaug.com

Dateline (September 1, 2010, Louisville, KY) --

Is your organization considering an upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12, or have you recently performed a new installation or upgrade to Oracle EBS R12? As an Oracle Applications DBA, you may find that managing Oracle EBS R12 is substantially different from its R11i predecessor. Administering Oracle EBS R12 can be made easier with the Oracle R12 Applications DBA Field Guide, a portable reference manual that is now available. The guide is brought to via the partnership between author Elke Phelps and the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG).

The Oracle R12 Applications DBA Field Guide is the second edition book authored by Elke Phelps. The new edition provides essentials for administering the updated Oracle EBS Applications tier and technology stack, including Oracle 10gAS and Oracle Database 11g. The book includes guidelines and references to guide you through the management and deployment of Oracle EBS R12. Included in the guide are topics ranging from architecture, configuration, installation, cloning, patching, monitoring, troubleshooting to performance tuning.

Excerpt from the foreword by Steven Chan, Oracle E-Business Suite Development, Oracle Corporation, http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/

“In the first edition of the guide, the authors and reviewers managed to distill hundreds -- if not thousands -- of pages of the relevant Oracle manuals, release notes, ReadMes, Knowledge Base documents, and their own hard-won expertise, into a dense but remarkably-compact volume.

It wasn't comprehensive by any means, and didn't claim to be. That was its strength. It was able to see the forest for the trees. It touched on nearly everything important that a DBA would really need to know about administering an Oracle E-Business Suite environment without drowning the reader in unnecessary details…

…and it was small enough to fit into a laptop bag.

They have done an excellent job with this second edition, which has been refreshed and expanded without losing its concise and practical focus. You hold the product of many years of experience in your hands, one that I expect will save you countless hours of arduous research and painful experimentation.”

Even for the experienced database administrator, Oracle Applications are complicated to administer, and most documentation that is available is difficult to find and understand. Whether you're an experienced Oracle Applications DBA or new to Oracle Applications, (perhaps experienced with PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, or Siebel), this book will enable and ease the administration and efficiency of day-to-day tasks. For more information about the Oracle R12 Applications DBA Field Guide by Elke Phelps or to purchase the guide, go to www.coquitechandpress.com

About the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG®)
Founded in 1990, the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) is the world’s largest knowledgebase for Oracle Applications users. The organization serves as an advocate to Oracle Corp. for companies worldwide. The OAUG provides users with education, networking and support via a wide range of activities and forums including conferences, publications, special interest groups and online communities. For more information about the OAUG, visit the website at oaug.org.

About the Author
Elke Phelps is an Oracle Certified Professional and Technical Architect focusing on Oracle Applications deployments. Elke's experience with Oracle Technology began in 1993. Her primary areas of expertise include Oracle Database and E-Business Suite deployments and upgrades, platform migrations and infrastructure design. Elke's advocacy of Oracle Technology through the publication of the first edition of the Oracle Applications DBA Field Guide (Apress, 2006), the publication of white papers, leadership of the Oracle E-Business Applications Technology Special Interest Group (SIG) and presentations at Oracle conferences since 2004 has earned her the designation of Oracle ACE in 2007 and Oracle ACE Director in 2009. She is a contributor to the blog hosted at http://www.fieldappsdba.com/.

Looking forward to Collaborate 2010

Collaborate 2010 will be held in Las Vegas April 18-April 22. Enclosed is a list of sessions not to be missed (although some not to be missed sessions do conflict, so be sure to split up coverage with your colleagues).

Sunday, April 18
10:00 – 11:50, Sessions 4656 and 4657, Database SIG, Michael Brown
10:00 – 11:50, Sessions 4660 and 4661, Fusion Middleware SIG, Raman Batra
3:00 – 4:50, Sessions 4679 and 4680, EBS Applications Technology SIG, Elke Phelps

• Enterprise Manager Change Management Pack, Angelo Rosado
• Oracle EBS Technology Stack Update and Roadmap, Steven Chan
• Oracle EBS Technology SIG Panel, Oracle EBS Technology SIG Board with Steven Chan

4:00 PM, Session 3597, Ten Steps to Success: Tips and Advice to Achieve Oracle EBS Certification, Mohan Dutt

Monday, April 19
8:00 AM, Session ID 3240, Thinking of Supporting or Extending Fusion Applications – An Update, Debra Liley
8:00 AM, Session 3656, Get Ready for EBS Release 12.1! Tasks to Complete Noew to Ease the R12.1 Upgrade Process, Sandra Vucinic
8:00 AM, Session 3299, Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Road Map and Vision: Release 12.1 and Beyond, Uma Prabhala
8:00 AM, Session 4360, Oracle BPEL 11g Training, Basheer Khan
10:45 AM, Session 3668, Migrations to Linux Panel, Sandra Vucinic
10:45 AM, Session 3842, 12.1.1 Architecture, Installation, and Cloning Best Practices, Max Arderius
10:45, Session 4408, Oracle Fusion Applications: Functional Overview, Basheer Khan
2:30 PM, Session 4777, The Latest on the E-Business Technology Roadmap, Steven Chan
2:30 PM, Session 4632, Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Strategy and General Manager Update, Cliff Godwin
3:45 PM, Session 4190, 11g Upgrade Essentials for Oracle E-Business Enviornments, Elke Phelps

Tuesday, April 20
8:00 AM, Session ID 3662, 10 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare for the Next Generation Applications, Nadia Bendjedou
10:30 AM, Session 4390, Oracle Fusion Applications Technical Overview, Basheer Khan
3:15 PM, Session 4698, Upgrade SIG Meeting, Sandra Vucinic
4:30 PM, Session 341, Tuning the Oracle Grid, Richard Niemiec

Wednesday, April 21
8:00 AM, Session 3634, Technology Essentials: Using the Latest Oracle Technologies with E-Business Suite, Lisa Parekh
9:15 AM, Session 346, The Best Oracle Database 11gR1 and 11gR2 New Features, Richard Niemiec
9:15 AM, Session 3663, Oracle E-Business Suite Cloning Panel, Sandra Vucinic
10:30 AM, Session ID 3323, How to Leverage the New E-Business Suite R12.1 Solutions without Upgrading your 11.5.10 Enviornment?, Nadia Bendjedou
4:00 PM, Session 70230, Understanding What Fusion Applications Means to You, Debra Liley
1:00 PM, Session 4180, Implementing an Advanced Architecture for Oracle E-Business Suite, Elke Phelps
2:15 PM, Session 4625, Advanced Technology Deployment Architectures for E-Business Suite, Steven Chan
4:00 PM, Session 3678, Leveraging Cloud Computing in an ERP Ecosystem, Michael Rulf
4:00 PM, Session 3594, Maximizing E-Business Suite Performance, Ahmed Alomari

Thursday, April 22
8:30 AM, Session 3445, Top Ten DBA Challenges in an EBS Environment, Srini Chavali
9:45 AM, Session 4232, Integrating OID/SSO with E-Business Suite and Third Party SSO Solutions, Norman Leach
12:15 PM, Session 3902, Successful Oracle Database 11g Upgrades with the E-Business Suite, Michael Brown