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This SQL allows you to view permissions and the associated navigation.  You can provide a Permission List name, Role name or User ID, or any combination of the those items to filter your results.  You should be prompted for the bind variables when run in SQL Developer.  If not values are provided it would run for all users and permission lists in your environment, which I would not recommend. This is something that comes in handy when reviewing or auditing a user's permissions and providing the relevant navigation makes a lot more sense to most people than providing just the menu and component would.  There would obviously be better, and more efficient, ways to report this information, but for a one-off request or troubleshooting I like the speed and flexibility of SQL.  This code can also be adapted into many other navigation and security queries.  -- ALL NAVIGATION FOR A GIVEN SECURITY ROLE, CLASSID or USER SELECT DISTINCT RC . ROLENAME , RC ...

This simple SQL can be used to identify the records that are used behind an online PeopleSoft component.  Sometimes you just need to look at the data, sometimes you need to write scripts to manipulate or export the data.  The code below includes only the SQL Table and SQL View record types and filters out records and fields that are only related-display. Yes, you could open App Designer to find the pages and records within the component, but I wanted a quicker way that would show only the records most likely to contain the data.  I especially do not want to parse through the numerous temp tables and work records that will show up in App Designer for some components. This should work on Oracle databases.  It has bind variables to accept the component name as input so you may need to replace or pass the values, depending on your SQL tool. There are several ways to find the component name while online, if you need to.  In some environments Ctrl+Shift+J may wo...

If you have been to a conference or user group event lately you have certainly heard plenty about "the Cloud".  This broad term actually covers a lot of different services and architectures, but in the ERP community it generally causes some anxiety for technical professionals.  There are concerns about no longer managing your own hardware or no longer customizing the software to your specific business requirements.  Some organizations have huge investments in custom development.  Some also remember previous negative experiences with the "hosted" solutions that were pre-cursors to the modern cloud architectures.  I understand, and to some extent, share some of those feelings.  Change is hard.  However, software vendors like Oracle are pushing cloud services and applications hard, and I think resistance is the wrong approach. I am not advocating for or against cloud solutions and I am not providing a comprehensive review of the solutions.  What I ...