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• Oracle parameter array binding from c# executed parallel and serial on different servers

  - by redir_dev_nut

  I have two Oracle 9i 64 bit servers, dev and prod. Calling a procedure from a c# app with parameter array binding, prod executes the procedure simultaneously for each value in the parameter array, but dev executes for each value serially. So, if the sproc does: select count(*) into cnt from mytable where id = 123; if cnt = 0 then insert into mytable (id) values (123); end if; Assuming the table initially does not have an id = 123 row. Dev gets cnt = 0 for the first array parameter value, then 1 for each of the subsequent. Prod gets cnt = 0 for all array parameter values and inserts id 123 for each. Is this a configuration difference, an illusion due to speed difference, something else?

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• Oracle EE 11.2g: how to generate fresh new redo logs

  - by Aikanaro

  Hi, In the company I work for we are heavy users of vmware machines. Almost all our projects are developed inside a virtual environment up to the point where we have to deploy them into a production system. While in development, some colleagues of mine deleted the redo log files for Oracle in the hopes of gaining some free space. Now they are unable to start the database instance. Is there a way of generating a fresh new redo log so that the instance can be started? This is urgent and even though I'm currently googling for an answer I have yet to find it. Thanks in advance.

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• Oracle Enterprise Manager Logs

  - by idea_

  Hi, I'm attempting to investigate the root cause of the following error which occurs each time a users call an Oracle 10g Forms applet: FRM-92102: A network error has occurred. The Forms Client has attempted to reestablish its connection to the Server 1 time(s) without success. Please check the network connection and try again later. Details... Java Exception: java.io.IOException: Connection failure with 503 This error remained after restarting all my system components: HTTP_Server, OC4J_BI_Forms, Web Cache, Reports Server, etc. The only way to clear this issue was to restart the server entirely. During the downtime, web pages were rendered with the PL/SQL cartridge and being served, so it appears as though this was isolated to forms. Does anybody know which log files may provide clues here? Any help would be much appreciated :) Update: If somebody can provide me with a way or reference to increase the capacity of my web server to minimize these errors, I will accept this as the solution.

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• Oracle tuning optimizer index cost adj and optimizer index caching

  - by Darryl Braaten

  What is the correct way to set the optimizer index cost adj parameter for Oracle. As a developer I have observed huge performance improvements as this parameter is lowered. Common queries are reduced from 2 seconds to 200ms. There are lots of warnings on the net that lowering this value will cause dire issues with the database, but no detail is given on what will start going wrong. I am currently only seeing only an upside, much improved application performance and no downside. I need to better understand the possible negative repercussions of adjusting these parameters.

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• Set of Tools to optimize the performance in general of SQL Server

  - by Dave

  Hi, I know there are things out there to help to optimize queries, ect... but is there anything else, something like a full package that can scan your database and highlight all the performance issues, naming conventions, tables not properly normalized, etc? I know this is the job of a DBA and if the DBA is good, he shouldn't need a tool like that, but sometimes you start a new job, you get in charge of an existing database and the DB is a mess, so you don't know where to start... Thanks to everyone Dave

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• Fixed expired accounts in Oracle 11g

  - by Álvaro G. Vicario

  I have an Oracle 11g server that's used for PHP development. Recently, I had a problem logging into the Enterprise Manager due to expired passwords. I've already changed settings so passwords no longer expire and I've unlocked all users. However, the user manager shows most built-in users as expired. How can I fix that? (If I just set a password for each expired account I guess that whatever services are using it will no longer be able to log in.)

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• Oracle account locked

  - by Priya

  Hi All, I had a user in my oracle DB with some 'x' password for sometime. Without notifying my team I changed the password to 'y'. But my team members tried to connect to the machine with the old passowrd 'x' and as the limit was set, the user account got locked. I know how to set the resource limit for the login. It would be helpful if anyone can help in finding who and all has tried to connect to the DB. As a administrator I would like to view from where the connection was from. Thanks in advance. Priya.R

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• What area of Mathematics is most useful to general programming knowledge?

  - by chustar

  I need to take elective mathematics classes and I was wondering which ones have been most helpful to programmers on stackoverflow. I'm interested in taking topology because of http://abstrusegoose.com/254 but was wondering what would be helpful to know as far as (general purpose) programming goes.

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• How to suppress error message details to general DNN Users

  - by thames

  I have a DNN site (05.02.03) in test and nearing release into production and I would like to suppress the details of error messages (i.e. Null Reference Exception, and others) to general users (admins can still see the details). Debug is off in the web.config. By suppressing, I mean the only error message I want to display to the general user (all users) is something like "An Exception has occured". I don't want the details of that exception to be displayed to the general user. I still want it logged in greater detail in the Event Viewer. How would I go about doing this? Update: I have "Use Custom Error Messages" checked. Which shows a error message like: A critical error has occurred.[vbCrLf] Object reference not set to an instance of an object. I want just the "A critical error has occured." error message to be displayed to general users. I don't want the "Object referece not set to an instance of an object." to be displayed to general users

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• Oracle 10g cannot see any data in tables

  - by MMRUSer

  Im getting this error in Oracle 10g log file 2010-11-12 16:07:41.838: [ OCROSD][3069777600]utgdv:2:ocr loc file cannot be opened 2010-11-12 16:07:41.865: [ OCROSD][3069777600]utopen:1: Couldnt find ocr,[ocrmirror] location in config file 2010-11-12 16:07:41.865: [ OCRRAW][3069777600]proprinit: Could not open raw device 2010-11-12 16:07:41.865: [ default][3069777600]a_init:7!: Backend init unsuccessful : [33] 2010-11-12 16:07:41.865: [ CSSCLNT][3069777600]clsssinit: error(33 ) in OCR initialization I was able to connect but can't generate table data form my client program. Plus it was working earlier. Im running on Redhat EL 5 Thanks.

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• Oracle Logical Standby redo generation

  - by DCookie

  Oracle 10.2.0.4 database with a logical standby on Win2K3. Recently a rather large delete operation was carried out on the production instance. I'm experiencing difficulty with the logical standby, in that it gets a couple of hundred (58M size) archive logs into the operation and the apply process fails with an out-of-memory error. Unfortunately, every time it fails it has to restart the apply from the beginning of the transaction. This is taking a couple of days each time. Anyway, in trying to resolve this problem, I've noticed that each archive log from the production system generates 5 or 6 log switches on the standby. I don't understand why this should be. Anyone have any ideas? A related question that I've not found the answer for: does anyone know if the logical standby must be running in archivelog mode? I really don't have a need to keep the logs.

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• oracle virtualbox doesn't work for host Kubuntu since Lucid Lynx 10.04

  - by 13east

  I have a thinkpad edge 14 core i3 2.4 ghz and 4g ram; I have tried kubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10 (all x64 architecture); Both oracle and ose virtualbox only works properly to install XP and windows 7 quest system on kubuntu 10.04; For every other kubuntu release since, the guest installation goes as far as formatting the virtual drive, freezes at this step, and doesn't even go as far as copying files to hard-drive to begin installation. But virtualbox has not stopped responding to commands; I can kill that one specific window with the problem installation ("machine" - "close" - "power off the machine") and start over again without having to force-kill virtualbox application. If anyone knows how I can go about addressing this problem, any help you can provide would be very much appreciated. Thank You.

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• Oracle application - files missing in the Mount point in UNix server

  - by arun_V

  My oracle application test instance is down, When I browse through the Unix server, I couldn’t find any files in the mount point,U01 U06 or U10, when I put BDF command it shows the following $ bdf Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on /dev/vg00/lvol3 204800 35571 158662 18% / /dev/vg00/lvol1 299157 38506 230735 14% /stand /dev/vg00/lvol8 1392640 1261068 123620 91% /var /dev/vg00/lvol7 1327104 825170 470631 64% /usr /dev/vg00/lvol4 716800 385891 310746 55% /tmp /dev/vg00/lvol6 872448 814943 53936 94% /opt /dev/vg00/lvolssh 32768 13243 18306 42% /opt/openssh /dev/vg00/lvol5 204800 187397 16334 92% /home /dev/vg00/lvolback 512000 472879 36704 93% /backup dg-ora04:/dgora03_u10 204800 167088 35416 83% /u10 dg-ora04:/dgora03_u06 204800 167088 35416 83% /u06 dg-ora04:/dgora03_u01 204800 167088 35416 83% /u01 Why can't I see any files inside the mount points?

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• Oracle redo log performance degradation when inserting

  - by Aldarund

  I have a oracle 11g database. I'm testing in for inserts. The database running in noarchive mode. I have 3 redo log configured, each 2gb. I'm trying to insert data into test table. At begin it goes fine with 15k ins/second. I make a commit after 200 inserts. But after about 1.3m inserted records it become really slow, about 1-2k ins/second. As i noticed in resource explorer at this point we have filled all redo logs and so the inserts from this points work slow. So my question is why it become so slow when it fills redo logs, even if i commit each 200 records. And how this situation can be fixed ( except the turning off logging completely at inserts)

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• Experience with Intel X25-M 160GB and Oracle

  - by derobert

  We're considering building an Oracle database with 12 Intel X25-M G2 160GB drives in software RAID10. It'd be running Linux. Database gets some very heavy write activity during the early morning data load, other than that it is mostly read-only (and the read load is fairly minimal). We're currently running on 11 150GB Velociraptors (also Linux software RAID10), and are hoping the X25-M will speed up the data load. We currently have redo on different disks than the rest of the data. I'm wondering a few things: Any experience with using X25-M drives for databases? The X25-E are unfortunately beyond our budget. Would it hurt to separate redo off to some magnetic (non-SSD) drives, say 2 (raid1) or 4 (raid10) Seagate Constellations?

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• Oracle backup and recovery

  - by kupa

  During recovery Oracle writes the following error: RMAN-06054: media recovery requesting unknown log: thread 1 seq 9 lowscn 4034762 I have used in mount mode this command: change archivelog all crosscheck; delete expired archivelog all; Then restore and tried to recover again:But still RMAN-06054 error.Than I wrote: run{ SET UNTIL SEQUENCE 9 THREAD 1; RESTORE DATABASE; RECOVER DATABASE; } It helped me to recover database...But after that when I do the backup and then recover the same error occurs and solution is the same... I wonder to solve this problem without SET UNTIL SEQUENCE 9 THREAD 1; maybe I should unregister this archive log from control file(I am using control file not catalog) Can you tell me how?

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• again again again…. it is Oracle Open World 2012

  - by JuergenKress

  Again… again I crashed my knee during kite surfing. Again the right knee, again the outside meniscus, again the same doctor, again the same operation, again they could sew my meniscus, again the same physiotherapy… again I will miss OOW. OOW session you should not miss Oracle PartnerNetwork Exchange Middleware stream Focus on SOA and BPM Focus on BPM For OFM Partner Advisory Councils please contact [email protected] Keynotes and General sessions to attend: Thomas Kurian: Tuesday, October 2 8:45 a.m. 9:45 a.m., Moscone North, Hall D Hasan Rizvi: General session middleware: Tuesday, October 3 10:15 am 11:15 am, Moscone North, Hall D If you can’t make it to San Francisco watch the keynotes live on-demand Tips and tricks for OOW Plan your visit well in advance! Which keynotes & session do you want to attend? Demo Grounds are highly recommended and the best of OOW! Which 1:1 meetings do you want to arrange? Attend a Partner or Customer Advisory Council? Attend a Country or Community Reception? Attire during OOW: casual clothing, comfortable shoes and light luggage! Do not forget to drink water. Sign an international travel and health insurance before you leave home! What we want from you! Send your tweets: twitter.com/soacommunity @soacommunity and share your pictures at http://www.facebook.com/soacommunity SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit  www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. Blog Twitter LinkedIn Mix Forum Technorati Tags: OOW,Oracle Open World,SOA Community,Oracle SOA,Oracle BPM,BPM,Community,OPN,Jürgen Kress

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• again again again…. it is Oracle Open World 2012

  - by JuergenKress

  Again… again I crashed my knee during kite surfing. Again the right knee, again the outside meniscus, again the same doctor, again the same operation, again they could sew my meniscus, again the same physiotherapy… again I will miss OOW. OOW session you should not miss Oracle PartnerNetwork Exchange Middleware stream CAF Overall (WebLogic Server, Tuxedo, Coherence, Java Cloud Service, GlassFish) Oracle WebLogic Server Oracle Coherence Java Cloud Service GlassFish Traffic Director Tuxedo For OFM Partner Advisory Councils please contact [email protected] Keynotes and General sessions to attend: Thomas Kurian: Tuesday, October 2 8:45 a.m. 9:45 a.m., Moscone North, Hall D Hasan Rizvi: General session middleware: Tuesday, October 3 10:15 am 11:15 am, Moscone North, Hall D If you can’t make it to San Francisco watch the keynotes live on-demand Tips and tricks for OOW Plan your visit well in advance! Which keynotes & session do you want to attend? Demo Grounds are highly recommended and the best of OOW! Which 1:1 meetings do you want to arrange? Attend a Partner or Customer Advisory Council? Attend a Country or Community Reception? Attire during OOW: casual clothing, comfortable shoes and light luggage! Do not forget to drink water. Sign an international travel and health insurance before you leave home! What we want from you! Send your tweets: http://twitter.com/wlscommunity and @wlscommnity share your pictures at http://www.facebook.com/WebLogicCommunity WebLogic Partner Community For regular information become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account required). If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. Blog Twitter LinkedIn Mix Forum Wiki Technorati Tags: Oracle Open World,OOW,WebLogic,WebLogic Community,Oracle,OPN,Jürgen Kress

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• Floating Panels and Describe Windows in Oracle SQL Developer

  - by thatjeffsmith

  One of the challenges I face as I try to share tips about our software is that I tend to assume there are features that you just ‘know about.’ Either they’re so intuitive that you MUST know about them, or it’s a feature that I’ve been using for so long I forget that others may have never even seen it before. I want to cover two of those today - Describe (DESC) – SHIFT+F4 Floating Panels My super-exciting desktop SQL Developer and Describe DESC or Describe is an Oracle SQL*Plus command. It shows what a table or view is composed of in terms of it’s column definition. Here’s an example: SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Fri Sep 21 14:25:37 2012 Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL> desc beer; Name Null? Type ----------------------------------------- -------- ---------------------------- BREWERY NOT NULL VARCHAR2(100) CITY VARCHAR2(100) STATE VARCHAR2(100) COUNTRY VARCHAR2(100) ID NUMBER SQL> You can get the same information – and a good bit more – in SQL Developer using the SQL Developer DESC command. You invoke it with SHIFT+F4. It will open a floating (non-modal!) window with the information you want. Here’s an example: I can see my column definitions, constratins, stats, privs, etc A few ‘cool’ things you should be aware of: I can open as many as I want, and still work in my worksheet, browser, etc. I can also DESC an index, user, or most any other database object I can of course move them off my primary desktop display The DESC panel’s are read-only. I can’t drop a constraint from within the DESC window of a given table. But for dragging columns into my worksheet, and checking out the stats for my objects as I query them – it’s very, very handy. Try This Right Now Type ‘scott.emp’ (or some other table you have), place your cursor on the text, and hit SHIFT+F4. You’ll see the EMP object open. Now click into a column name in the columns page. Drag it into your worksheet. It will paste that column name into your query. This is an alternative for those that don’t like our code insight feature or dragging columns off the connection tree (new for v3.2!) Got it? SQL Developer’s Floating Panels Ok, let’s talk about a similar feature. Did you know that any dockable panel from the View menu can also be ‘floated?’ One of my favorite features is the SQL History. Every query I run is recorded, and I can recall them later without having to remember what I ran and when. And I USUALLY use the keyboard shortcuts for this. Let your trouble float away…if only it were so easy as a right-click in the real world. But sometimes I still want to see my recall list without having to give up my screen real estate. So I just mouse-right click on the panel tab and select ‘Float.’ Then I move it over to my secondary display – see the poorly lit picture in the beginning of this post. And that’s it. Simple, I know. But I thought you should know about these two things!

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• Have you registered? Oracle 'In Touch' PartnerCast: Be prepared for a year of growth

  - by Julien Haye

  Hi there Oracle Partners, We hope you’ve seen our recent blog post regarding the next Oracle ‘In Touch’ PartnerCast? Hosted by David Callaghan, Senior Vice President EMEA Alliances and Channels, to be broadcast on Tuesday 1st July 2014 from 10:30am UK/11:30am CET. David and his studio guests will be discussing the latest news from Oracle; including highlights of FY14, Strategic themes for FY15 and SaaS. We will also have an exclusive for ‘In Touch’ whereby David interviews Senior Vice President, Global Alliances & Channels, Rich Geraffo, on what the FY15 Oracle Global Partner Kick Off means for EMEA Oracle Partners. Also, David provides your chance to hear from some of the newly appointed Oracle Worldwide A&C Leadership Team. Got a question for David and his guests? Get in touch on Twitter using the hashtag #OracleInTouch or by emailing [email protected] to get your questions featured in the cast! To find out more information and to watch previous episodes on-demand, please visit our webpage here. We hope you can make it! Oracle EMEA Alliances & Channels

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• Venez nous voir au Forum Oracle Big Data le 5 avril !

  - by Kinoa

  Le Big Data vient de plus en plus souvent au devant de la scène et vous souhaitez en apprendre davantage ? Générés à partir des réseaux sociaux, de capteurs numériques et autres équipements mobiles, les Big Data - autrement dits, d'énormes volumes de données - constituent une mine d'informations précieuses sur vos activités et les comportements de vos clients. Votre challenge aujourd’hui consiste à gérer l’acquisition, l’organisation et la compréhension de ces volumes de données non structurées, et à les intégrer dans votre système d’information. Vous avez des questions ? Ca vous parait complexe ? Alors le Forum Oracle Bid Data organisé par Oracle et Intel est fait pour vous !   Nous aborderons plusieurs points : Accélération du déploiement de Big Data par l'approche intégrée du hardware et du software Mise à disposition de tous les outils nécessaires au processus complet, de l'acquisition des données à la restitution Intégration de Big Data dans votre système d'information pour fournir aux utilisateurs la quintessence de l'information Nous vous avons concocté un programme des plus alléchant pour cette journée du 5 avril : 9h00 Accueil et remise des badges 9h30 Big Data : The Industry View. Are you ready ?Johan Hendrickx, Core Technology Director, Oracle EMEA Keynote : Big Data – Are you ready ? George Lumpkin, Vice President of DW Product Management, Oracle Corporation Acquisition des données dans votre Big Dataavec Hadoop et Oracle NoSQL Pause Organisez et structurez l'information au sein de votre Big Data avec Big Data Connectors et Oracle Data Integrator Tirez parti des analyses des données de votre Big Dataavec Oracle Endeca et Oracle Business Intelligence 13h00 Cocktail déjeunatoire Le nombre de places est limité, pensez à vous inscrire dès maintenant. Lieu :  Maison de la Chimie28 B, rue Saint Dominique 75007 Paris

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• EBS + 11g Database Upgrade Best Practices Whitepaper Available

  - by Steven Chan

  I returned from OAUG/Collaborate with a cold and multiple overlapping development crises.  Fun.  Now that those are (mostly) out of the way, it's time to get back to clearing out my article backlog.  Premier Support for the 10gR2 database ends in July 2010.  If you haven't already started planning your 11g database upgrade, we recommend that you start soon.  We have certified both the 11gR1 (11.1.0.7) and 11gR2 (11.2.0.1) databases with Oracle E-Business Suite; see this blog's Certification summary to links to articles with the details.Our Applications Performance Group has reminded me that they have a whitepaper loaded with practical tips intended to make your 11g database upgrade easier.  No vacuous marketing rhetoric here -- this is strictly written for DBAs.  A must-read if you haven't already upgraded to either 11gR1 or 11gR2, and highly recommended even if you have.  You can download this whitepaper here:Upgrade to 11g Performance Best Practices (PDF, 184K)

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• April 12 EBS Webcast: Value Chain Planning 12.1.3.6 Rapid Planning Enhancements

  - by Oracle_EBS

  ADVISOR WEBCAST: 12.1.3.6 Rapid Planning EnhancementsPRODUCT FAMILY: Value Chain Planning April 12, 2012 at 11 am ET, 9 am MT, 8 am PT This one-hour session is recommended for functional users who work on the implementation of Oracle Rapid Planning, and Consultants interested in the latest Oracle Rapid Planning features and enhancements available through VCP version 12.1.3.6. This webcast will discuss Safety Stock Calculation Using Quantities, Substitution Logic, and RP-CP Collaboration.TOPICS WILL INCLUDE: Provide insight on the latest enhancements that are available in Oracle Rapid Planning. Learn what is available in this version compared to earlier versions. Version changes. A short, live demonstration (only if applicable) and question and answer period will be included. Oracle Advisor Webcasts are dedicated to building your awareness around our products and services. This session does not replace offerings from Oracle Global Support Services. Current Schedule can be found on Note 740966.1 Post Presentation Recordings can be found on Note 740964.1

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• Value Chain Planning in Las Vegas

  - by Paul Homchick

  Several Oracle Value Chain Planning experts will be presenting at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, for Collaborate 2010- April 18th- 22nd, 2010. We have five sessions as follows: Monday, April 19, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm, Breakers H, Roger Goossens Oracle VCP Vice President Leveraging Oracle Value Chain Planning for Your Planning Business Transformation Monday, April 19, 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm, Breakers I, Scott Malcolm, Oracle VCP Development Complex Supply Chain Planning Made Easy: Introducing Oracle Rapid Planning Tuesday, April 20, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Breakers I, John Bermudez, Oracle VCP Strategy Synchronize Your Financial and Operating Plans with Oracle Integrated Business Planning Wednesday, April 21, 10:30 am - 11:30 am, Breakers I, Vikash Goyal, Oracle VCP Strategy Oracle Demantra: What's New? Wednesday, April 21, 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm, Mandalay Bay Ballroom A, Roger Goossens Oracle VCP Vice President Value Chain Planning for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne We will also be in the demogrounds, so stop by to see the latest VCP innovations from Oracle and talk to our experts.

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• What’s Your Tax Strategy? Automate the Tax Transfer Pricing Process!

  - by tobyehatch

  Does your business operate in multiple countries? Well, whether you like it or not, many local and international tax authorities inspect your tax strategy.  Legal, effective tax planning is perceived as a “moral” issue. CEOs are being asked to testify on their process of tax transfer pricing between multinational legal entities.  Marc Seewald, Senior Director of Product Management for EPM Applications specializing in all tax subjects and Product Manager for Oracle Hyperion Tax Provisioning, and Bart Stoehr, Senior Director of Product Strategy for Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management joined me for a discussion/podcast on this interesting subject.  So what exactly is “tax transfer pricing”? Marc defined it this way. “Tax transfer pricing is a profit allocation methodology required to be used by multinational corporations. Specifically, the ultimate goal of the transfer pricing is to ensure that the global multinational pays their fair share of income tax in each of their local markets. Specifically, it prevents companies from unfairly moving profit from ‘high tax’ countries to ‘low tax’ countries.” According to Marc, in today’s global economy, profitability can be significantly impacted by goods and services exchanged between the related divisions within a single multinational company.  To ensure that these cost allocations are done fairly, there are rules that govern the process. These rules ensure that intercompany allocations fairly represent the actual nature of the businesses activity- as if two divisions were unrelated - and provide a clear audit trail of how the costs have been allocated to prove that allocations fall within reasonable ranges.  What are the repercussions of improper tax transfer pricing? How important is it? Tax transfer pricing allocations can materially impact the amount of overall corporate income taxes paid by a company worldwide, in some cases by hundreds of millions of dollars!  Since so much tax revenue is at stake, revenue agencies like the IRS, and international regulatory bodies like the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are pushing to reform and clarify reporting for tax transfer pricing. Most recently the OECD announced an “Action Plan for Base Erosion and Profit Shifting”. As Marc explained, the times are changing and companies need to be responsive to this issue. “It feels like every other week there is another company being accused of avoiding taxes,” said Marc. Most recently, Caterpillar was accused of avoiding billions of dollars in taxes. In the last couple of years, Apple, GE, Ikea, and Starbucks, have all been accused of tax avoidance. It’s imperative that companies like these have a clear and auditable tax transfer process that enables them to justify tax transfer pricing allocations and avoid steep penalties and bad publicity. Transparency and efficiency are what is needed when it comes to the tax transfer pricing process. Bart explained that tax transfer pricing is driving a deeper inspection of profit recognition specifically focused on the tax element of profit.  However, allocations needed to support tax profitability are nearly identical in process to allocations taking place in other parts of the finance organization. For example, the methods and processes necessary to arrive at tax profitability by legal entity are no different than those used to arrive at fully loaded profitability for a product line. In fact, there is a great opportunity for alignment across these two different functions.So it seems that tax transfer pricing should be reflected in profitability in general. Bart agreed and told us more about some of the critical sub-processes of an overall tax transfer pricing process within the Oracle solution for tax transfer pricing.  “First, there is a ton of data preparation, enrichment and pre-allocation data analysis that is managed in the Oracle Hyperion solution. This serves as the “data staging” to the next, critical sub-processes.  From here, we leverage the Oracle EPM platform’s ability to re-use dimensions and legal entity driver data and financial data with Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management (HPCM).  Within HPCM, we manage the driver data, define the legal entity to legal entity allocation rules (like cost plus), and have the option to test out multiple, simultaneous tax transfer pricing what-if scenarios.  Once processed, a tax expert can evaluate the effectiveness of any one scenario result versus another via a variance analysis configured with HPCM’s pre-packaged reporting capability known as Oracle Hyperion SmartView for Office.”   Further, Bart explained that the ability to visibly demonstrate how a cost or revenue has been allocated is really helpful and auditable.  “HPCM’s Traceability Maps are that visual representation of all allocation flows that have been executed and is the tax transfer analyst’s best friend in maintaining clear documentation for tax transfer pricing audits. Simply click and drill as you inspect the chain of allocation definitions and results. Once final, the post-allocated tax data can be compared to the GL to create invoices and journal entries for posting to your GL system of choice.  Of course, there is a framework for overall governance of the journal entries, allocation percentages, and reporting to include necessary approvals.” Lastly, Marc explained that the key value in using the Oracle Hyperion solution for tax transfer pricing is that it keeps everything in alignment in one single place. Specifically, Oracle Hyperion effectively becomes the single book of record for the GAAP, management, and the tax set of books. There are many benefits to having one source of the truth. These include EFFICIENCY, CONTROLS and TRANSPARENCY.So, what’s your tax strategy? Why not automate the tax transfer pricing process!To listen to the entire podcast, click here.To learn more about Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management (HPCM), click here.

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