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(Tarry Singh) In our last article we saw Oracle VM and if you haven’t been asleep at the wheel, then you’ve obviously noticed that Virtualization is getting hot Hot HOT! The whole industry is going crazy with it. It’s growing in all directions. Virtualization is not only coming to the Data Center bu
Oracle BI 10.1.3.3/2 – Selecting Reports from Dashboard Prompts and Guided Navigation Sections
(Venkatakrishnan J) While i was away on vacation, a set of pretty good questions came up as comments in the Contact Me page of this blog. Though i never expected this page to get any comments at all, it looks like i was wrong. So, apologies to everyone who have been waiting for a reply from my end.
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