Navigate the following by starting at OracleContextn and working you way down to PORTAL you will get the password to the Oracle Database used by the portal. Using Oracle SQL-developer you can used the JDBC connection string to connect and view the database.

OrclResourceName=PORTAL,orclReferenceName=YourDomain.YourDatabase,cn=IAS Infrastructure Databases,cn=IAS,cn=Products,cn=OracleContext

ldapsearch -h -p -D “cn=orcladmin” -w -b “cn=IAS Infrastructure Database,cn=IAS,cn=Products,cn=OracleContext” -s sub “orclresourcename=PORTAL”  rclpasswordattribute

As i was catching up on Scotts Gu’s blog. i came across this posting http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/24/new-asp-net-charting-control-lt-asp-chart-runat-quot-server-quot-gt.aspx about the new charting control in asp.net. And i thought to myself….finally. With ASP.net mvc going 1.0 and Silverlight3.0 beta announced this probably got very little attention.

download here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EE8F6F35-B087-4324-9DBA-6DD5E844FD9F&displaylang=en