Oracle Apps DBA: Keeping E-Business Suite Alive · Module 12 · Space, growth and purging
The standard purge programs
Lesson 127 of 184 · 3 min
What EBS ships, what each removes, and THE PARAMETERS THAT DECIDE HOW MUCH HISTORY SURVIVES. EBS provides purge programs for the things that accumulate, and the first useful fact is that they exist — many estates write their own scripts for work that is already delivered and supported. THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE PURGES CONCURRENT REQUEST HISTORY, AND IT REMOVES BOTH THE ROWS AND THE FILES. That pairing matters: a home-made script deleting rows leaves the log and output files on disk forever, which is the larger half of the problem — Module 8 Lesson 10. OTHERS CLEAR PROCESSED INTERFACE DATA, WORKFLOW HISTORY AND SIMILAR ACCUMULATIONS. Which ones an estate needs depends on which modules it uses, and the useful exercise is to find out what is growing — Lesson 1 — and then find the supplied program for it rather than starting from the program list. THE PARAMETERS ARE WHERE…
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