Data … as usual

This post is related to My Oracle Support (MOS) and one of the features every DBA has to configure is the Hot Topic email.

This feature will send you an email every day ou week (depending on how you configure it) with all the new stuff published or updated on MOS (Knowledge base article, bugs, alerts …).

Of course, you can filter on the products you want to subscribe and select the number of items you want to receive by category.

To configure this fonction, log in to MOS with your account and click on the “settings” tab, ,the select the “Hot Topic Email” link on the left … see in the screenshot below (green box):

Then, you will see the “hot topics” part and here you can configure it:

• On the first part (1), you can configure the frequency of the mail and its format. You can also configure the content you want to include in this mail: favorites and Service requests
• Next, on the second part (2), which is for me the most important part, you will select the products you want to subscribe and what kind of information you want to receive (knowledge articles, alerts, bugs etc.)
• Finally, on the third part (3), you will choose the number of items the mail will includes. In the previous screenshot, I will receive 25 bugs (for all the products I selected), 25 knowledge articles etc. (Usually the bug and knowledge articles are the most important parts… yes, there are a lot of bugs updated every day 😉 )

As a result, I receive this kind of email every day:

Alerts

Bugs

Knowledge Articles