Back to HOTSOS, HOTSOS 2010 Day 1

As always Hotsos started off with a nice keynote, this time done by Tom Kyte. Tom Kyte was introduced by Hotsos president Gary Goodman after the HOTSOS 2010 opening. Tom’s keynote theme was “Should we be less smart some times”. Tom told about own experiences, that he in the past gave sometimes too fast an answer. It is very important to think about an answer before giving it… Why? Well some things applied in the past or for a specific version, and now they don’t anymore… this can be a problem, a real issue. Always make sure you talk about the same definitions, and agree on them. Make sure talking about the same version and of course about similar circumstances. When you start giving answers in general be sure to work with facts and not some assumptions which might be wrong. So you should always think about the information, about the circumstances and the assumptions you do, it means “Continuous Thinking”.

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March 15, 2010 | Filed Under EXADATA, Query, Trace, Uncategorized, error, general, parameters, personal | Leave a Comment 

SQL Tracing in Self Service Applications (CRM) within Oracle Applications 11i

Some years ago I posted a blog on the AMIS technology blog describing a trace method of Self Service applications within Oracle EBS 11i. The main difference in this post is that the insert into the table fnd_profile_option_values now has one extra field inserted. This change has been introduced somewhere in 11.5.9. The scripts below can be used in higher versions, the post from the past at the AMIS technolog blog can be used in older versions.

In a lot of cases it is very interesting to be able to trace Self Service Applications (CRM) in Oracle Applications 11i. Most of the time it is very hard to understand what is going on in such a session and in that case it might be very handy to get the SQL behind it. To do this there is a very nice not really known feature of the profile option “Initialization SQL Statement - Custom”. With this profile option it is possible to trace any session of a given Apps user on any level. To ensure you don’t end up with a hanging apps login (quote’s should be placed the right place) you can use the following scripts just on the SQL plus prompt to activate and stop the tracing. Read more

April 1, 2009 | Filed Under EBS, Trace, general | 1 Comment