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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Crystal Report as an ad-hoc tool
if you are dead-set using crystal... I feel your pain. In a previous life (job) I was a report writer/integrator... we used a Delphi front end, and Crystal provided us a couple of nice utilities to get into the structure of the application and change many of the queries and results. We would give it different queries to run, different where clauses, even include hints. And then we gave our users a limited number of different options in the gui so they did not hurt themselves or our database.
otherwise, skip to something a little nicer... I have heard Brio works very well.
Nick
-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Gurevich [mailto:g_u_r_e_v_i_c_h_at_yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 9:56 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Crystal Report as an ad-hoc tool
Hi all:
My users are considering using Crystal reports as an ad-hoc tool to query a DSS. They ran into several issues however using it. I was wondering if someone out there has ehough experience with that tool to shed some light.
Issue 1. Whenever Crystal creates a query it only create a one-pass sql. If the sql goes against a large number of large tables, we'd rather have the query split into several smaller 'create table as" statements, the result sets of which will be combined into the final result set. IS there a option in Crystal to allow the "multi-pass" queries?
Issue 2. Kind of subset of the previous one. Does Crystal allow users to create tables at all? It seems to be a "read only" tool as far as we can see. Is this correct?
thanks for any help
Gene
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