At last, OEM 12c Bundle Patch 1 is available for Solaris and AIX! We installed our OEM Cloud Control 12c on a Sparc server, and I was waiting this bundle patch about 4 months. I’ll apply it as soon as possible because all actual plug-ins require this must-have bundle patch. Of course, I’ll blog about the patching process. After applying patch, I’m planning to test Management Connector for CA Service Desk and I’ll also blog about it.

OEM Base Platform Patch Number is 13242773.

As you may know, if you do a fresh install, you don’t need to apply this patch, because installation packages include BP1.

Here is the link for OEM 12c with BP1 for Solaris SPARC:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/grid-control/downloads/solsoft-094433.html

Yesterday, I was at TROUG DBA SIG event. I organized the event and I’m very satisfied with the result. Bilginc IT Academy were our hosts. The conference place and the audience were all good. We established a good contact with the audience, and all the sessions were very interactive. People did not hesitate to ask questions during the presentations, it’s not usual in Turkey

We planned that Zekeriya Besiroglu (President of TROUG) would speak at the event, unfortunately he was sick and couldn’t speak. So I made the keynote speech, and I think It was too long! I spoke for 2 hours non-stop

After my “double” session, Kamil Turkyilmaz spoke about partitioning best practices. Specially test results impressed people, and they surely get the benefits of composite partitioning and partition-wise joining.

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I’ll be speaking at Turkish Oracle User Group DBA SIG Meeting on May 31th. As expected, I’ll talk about Enterprise Manager and try to explain how we can use Enterprise Manager as a performance tuning tools and troubleshot performance issues.

Here’s the schedule:

13:00-13:15	Key Note
13:15-14:00	About Data Masking – Zekeriya Besiroglu
14:00-14:15	Coffee Break
14:15-15:00	Performance Tuning with Enterprise Manager – Gokhan Atil
15:00-15:15	Coffee Break
15:15-16:00	Oracle Partitioning – Kamil Türkyilmaz
16:00-16:15	Coffee Break
16:15-17:00	Analyzing Trace Files – Ugur Inal

More information (in Turkish): http://www.troug.org/?p=203

Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c is released for Windows 64bit. You can download it from Oracle web site. Bundle patch 1 is already applied to windows release. New EM12c agents for Windows 32bit and 64bit are also available. You can use self-update to download them but you must have already applied Bundle Patch 1 to your Enterprise Manager:

As you see, although I downloaded the agents, I can’t use them because I’m still waiting for BP1 for Solaris (My EM12c is installed on Solaris)

Kevin Closson shared a presentation video titled “Critical Analysis meets Exadata” on Friday. It has 2 parts and takes about 45 minutes in total. As you may know, Kevin Closson is an Exadata guru, and in his presentation, he shows possible performance bottlenecks caused by the asymmetrical architecture of Exadata.

Here are the videos (please watch them in full-screen):

Part 1:

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