You may have seen multiple postings regarding how to set a password on a PDF file created with XML Publisher by modifying the XDO.CFG file. While this does provide some protection, it sets the same password on ALL pdf’s. In PeopleTools 8.50 the reporting development team incorporated this feature in the Report Definition page, see [...]
In the previous two postings in this series, I looked at the architecture of the Oracle BI Server, and how it processes incoming queries from Oracle BI Answers. In the latter article I touched on the concept of BI Server in-memory joins, and in this article I want to expand on this topic and look [...]
In an IM conversation I had with Paul this morning, I decided to embark on an experiment. I’ve decided to drop out of all things social (online) for a few weeks. This includes Twitter, Buzz, Facebook, blogging, etc. The only thing this doesn’t include is email and IM — those are essential. My online activities [...]
Tired of social media? Maybe you’re like Rich, and you want to delete your Facebook account. Well, there’s an app for that, the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine (h/t TechCrunch). Yeah, it’s a web app, but work with me here. Somehow I doubt this one would make it past Apple’s censors. The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine [...]
Tired of social media? Maybe you’re like Rich, and you want to delete your Facebook account. Well, there’s an app for that, the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine (h/t TechCrunch). Yeah, it’s a web app, but work with me here. Somehow I doubt this one would make it past Apple’s censors. The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine [...]
In an effort to streamline the process for customers to receive Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) and make it more efficient for us internally, the ERDs are now available on My Oracle Support. Customers no longer have to open a SRS ticket. Customers can find them on My Oracle Support using the Note ID or from [...]
I have seen various postings on being able to use BIP with Avery label templates. Im not limited to Avery here, there are other templates out there too. I have recently been working with John and colleagues over in Oklahoma City who were desperate; desperate might be too strong a word but they needed, at [...]
This weekend we migrated Oracle & BEA customers over to My Oracle Support from Metalink. Yesterday (Nov 9th), some customers experienced problems expressed in the comments that I wrote about in this blog. The issues were mostly around performance and registration, but to our knowledge, we have resolved these issues. If there are problems that [...]
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