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EM12c upgrade from 12.1.0.2 to 12.1.0.3

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Garth

Now that Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 3 (aka EM12cR3!) has been out for a few weeks, I decided to brave it and upgrade our Production stack today. In this post, I’ll be upgrading an EM12cR2 (12.1.0.2) installation which consists of two OMSes, running on Linux x86-64 (RHEL5) which uses an 11.2.0.3 database management repository.

Installing APEX 4.2 and configuring Embedded PL/SQL Gateway (EPG)

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Garth

A standard Oracle 11.2.0.3 database installation comes bundled with Application Express (APEX) 3.2.1 by default. I’m going to upgrade to the latest version of APEX (currently 4.2.2) and then configure the Embedded PL/SQL Gateway (EPG), which uses the Oracle XML DB HTTP components within the database itself, so I don’t need to run a separate HTTP server. First