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  • OAC has been working fine for….180 days….and now won’t start!
  • Service appears to come up OK, but no services accessible & reboots don’t fix it.
  • The short answer – DBCS “as provisioned” has a 180 day expiry on all schemas – and officially there’s no way to unexpire the accounts without changing the passwords, which’ll break “everything”.
  • This post shows how to identify & debug the problem, fix it quickly and simply, and then prevent it happening again!

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It’s interesting that the ancient Greeks understood that the revelations of the Oracles were not seen as the objective truth and they were fully aware of the unknowability of the divine. I think everyone went to the Oracle Analytics Partner Forum in Athens with some trepidation about what the future holds for Analytics & the Cloud @ Oracle Corporation. The news is good….

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I was in a conference yesterday and there was some lively debate about the pros and cons of APEX vs Oracle Analytics Cloud, OBIEE & BICS. I thought I’d drill in to this a little further and explore what role does Oracle Application Express plays in a Business Analytics environment and should (or could) Application Express be used instead of Oracle Analytics Cloud?

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