Books by Mike Swing

Putting together the right team to tackle the Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2.8 upgrade, and understanding the issues that the team needs to consider to be successful, can be quite a challenge. "the little r12.2.8 upgrade essentials for managers and team members" describes the big picture of what you need to consider before tackling the Release 12.2.8 upgrade. Based on TruTek?s popular R11i to R12 Technical Upgrade training classes, this book describes what managers, functional, and technical team members need to know to prepare to upgrade from Release 11i to Release 12.2.8 of Oracle?s E-Business Suite of Applications. Enhanced topics with this edition include: Online Patching, the ADOP Patching Cycle, Materialized Views, Customizations, Development Standards for Edition Based Redefinition, How Cross-Edition Triggers Work, and Understanding the Release 12.2 Architecture.

As more customers tackle the Release 12.1.3 upgrade, finding additional ways to minimize upgrade time has become a key goal. Reducing the time to upgrade has several benefits: This book hones in on key ways to tune your upgrade and has the benefit of improving overall performance of your E-Business Suite environment after the upgrade as well. Learn about the benefits of Solid State Drives, Automatic Storage Management, and a hardware architecture suited to the E-Business Suite workload. Most importantly, you'll learn about tuning I/O and CPU utilization for R12 systems. Based on TruTek's experience gained by repeatedly upgrading test environments for our clients, upgrade training classes, and client production upgrades, we've included solutions for problems that we've seen along the way.