Experienced Apps DBAs know that there are often compelling reasons to tweak the E-Business Suite’s database initialization parameters from the defaults.  The master source-of-truth for whether certain parameter settings will help or hurt your EBS environment performance is published here:

Our EBS database architects have just released an updated version of that Note.  Recent updates over the last month include a number of important changes and additions to our recommendations for:

  • Database parameters that should be removed for 10gR2 (10.2.x) databases
  • Database parameters that should be removed for 11gR1 (11.1.x) databases
  • Advanced Queuing (AQ) additions to 10gR1, 10gR2, and 11gR1 recommendations
  • Database initialization parameter sizing recommendations for processes, sessions, db_block_buffers, db_cache_size, sga_target, undo_retention, shared_pool_*, pga_aggregate_target, and total memory required for different numbers of concurrent users
  • New links to related documents

One of our architects wryly observed that this relatively-short list of changes belies the actual importance and impact of the changes to our recommendations. 

Don’t be fooled — these changes are extremely important and can have profound impact on the performance of your Apps database.  All Apps DBAs should spend some quality time comparing your current database settings with the latest recommendations in this document.

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