Re: Database Report Generator - beta testers needed

"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:40a74301$0$3032$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> D Rolfe wrote:
>
> > Howard,
> >
> >>
> >> If you don't have a beta account and password, that address is not
> >> visible. Care to cut and paste the actual content? Or mail it.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> HJR
> >
> >
> > From the original posting:
> >
> >> The details are on our website: www.gestalt.com/Scribe (temporary
> >> location).
> >>
> >> User: guest
> >> Password: star
> >
> >
> > DR
> >
>
>
> Worse, you *did* cut and paste the content, only I didn't realise it.
>
> Yes, no joins is not just a show-stopper, but absolutely terminal. I
> never got as far as successfully installing (it is what I would call
> intrusive, asking for personal details it has no right to ask, and
> taking a hardware inventory of the machine it's installed on so you
> can't repeat install on multiple machines -which might be OK for a
> production system, but is defintiely OTT for a beta).
>

We appreciated your prior complaint about our method of the beta distribution which was also raised by a number of other would-be-testers. We have listened and made modifications so that "blind" non-intrusive downloads are now possible.

Wolfgang
contactwolfgang_at_gestalt.com (remove contact to email) www.gestalt.com

> If it only does single tables, then you might as well use Enterprise
> Manager, right-click a table and ask to view the table contents. I can't
> see a single-table-only report generator making any advance on that.
>
> I agree, too, that 3 to 5 days is not sufficient for anyone to be able
> to code well-tuned calls to an Oracle database (I wonder if bind
> variables are used, for example).
>
> Regards
> HJR
Received on Mon May 17 2004 - 11:14:58 CDT