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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...

The PeopleSoft PUM Image VMs seems to work pretty well once installed.  There is very little maintenance that I have had to perform on these environments and I can always start over by rebuilding the VM if I really break something.  Still, there have been some small issues recently that have required digging into the these environments so here are some notes to help. Database Administration The Oracle Database runs within the same VM and can be accessed using TNS with SQLPlus, SQL Developer, or most other Oracle-compatible tools.  However, I recently needed to make some adjustments to the SYSADM privileges.  For this I needed to connect as SYSDBA. 1. Login to the VM as root   (this account was setup when you installed the image) 2. Switch to the oracle  account.  This is the database owner. su - oracle 3. You then need to know the database name to connect to.  The easiest way is to look for the pmon process.  In the example be...

I have a query I am trying to write against a custom table within PeopleSoft.  This custom table has some character columns that are free form, but in this case storing dates, so the user can type something like "03/14/2017" for March 14, 2017.  The query needs to evaluate these entries as date criteria, determining whether the date in the column is less than the current date. This is a little challenging because the field could be populate or it could be empty, although in PeopleSoft empty actually means a single space character.  We are also assuming that if it is populated it is always in the format MM/DD/YYYY. A couple different approaches are below, but obviously there are huge issues with this type of implementation... what happens is someone enters something that doesn't even look like a date?  Probably an error. At least in my case the data entry is somewhat controlled.  In both examples I do want to return rows where the date column is blank or th...