Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12

It was an eager wait for this new release from Oracle last year in Jan 2007. I thought after a year of release people have got exposure to R12 and now may be diving into more technical aspects, so I thought to share some information on its documentation.

At Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle previewed the next major release of Oracle(r) E-Business Suite. Designed to support businesses in today's global economy, Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 enables customers to think globally to make better decisions, work globally to be more competitive and manage globally to lower costs and increase performance.

One can refer the document id 394692.1 for Release Content Documents once you log in Metalink . It describes the links for Release Content Documents of various Oracle EBS products. These documents mostly covered brief discussion for new and updated features in 12i. Metalink user can access these documents and get the feeling of 12i before actual release

Release12 documents available on Oracle Applications (Release 12) Documentation Library

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 New Technology Stack (PDF, 520K. (Username: cboracle, Password: oraclec6 to download) is available for your reference.

 

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Instant Client

Avoid installing Oracle Client to access database-Instant Client

I had faced many challenges while installing Oracle Client on my new laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium as I believe there are some critical files not bundled with this pack. I effortlessly installed Oracle client on Vista Ultimate. But now you can even avoid installing client to access database. Learn how. I made a habit of documenting this kind of ‘problems WITH solution ‘ and it became a our blog post .

What is Instant Client?

Oracle introduced ‘Instant Client’ as an alternative to install Oracle client to run your applications. Benefit, less disk space used and very important is to avoid step by step client installation for creating ORACLE_HOME

Installation Steps:

1. Download the appropriate Instant Client packages for your platform. All installations REQUIRE the Basic or Basic Lite package.

2. Unzip the packages into a single directory such as “instantclient_10_2 ".

3. Set the library loading path in your environment to the directory " instantclient_10_2 " (or Step 2 Directory)

4. Now that you are in the instantclient_10_2 directory you will need to set up some environment variables to be able to run SQL Plus

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=

export TNS_ADMIN=.

export ORACLE_HOME=.

5. Now you will need to create of copy a tnsnames.ora file into your current directory

6. To connect your database, run this command ./sqlplus username/password@databasename

Note: SIDNAME is database name in your TNSNAMES.ora

Download Instant Client

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/index.html

Problem I faced: Unable to install Oracle Client on your PC having Windows Vista Home Premium?

Steps:

1. Download the appropriate Instant Client packages for your platform i.e. Instant Client Package - Basic/Basic Lite (OCI,DLL files) e.g. instantclient-basic-win32-11.1.0.6.0.zip for Windows

2. Unzip the package . It will be unzipped as “ instantclient_10_2”. I recommend to place this in you C:/ Directory

3. Run Setup for Oracle Client. Restart on Prompt. Done. Enjoy

4. Or

5. Install SQL Developer. Download from http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/sql/index.html

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