EB-8627: Added code to trim "U" from unisource employee number
Revert "eb-6619: migrated authsession database to oracle (formerly hsql)" - The database team needs to create a new database for pendview to use. See EB6619_OracleAuthSession branch for these code changes

This reverts commit 07b2bba4505637daf1b3730861e8cdd2d17f261b.
eb-8627: added defensive checks to handle null employee numbers
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'