Re: Basic Doubts
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:22:35 +0100
Message-ID: <7enflq$qgg$1_at_news5.svr.pol.co.uk>
Viyaja,
SQL Plus is pretty useless for developing any kind of application, as you
can't
create any kind of 'front end' for your users with it.
You need some kind of client tool to create an application. Oracle Forms
is a 'full featured development environment', i.e. a bit like Visual Basic
or
C++ - it's GUI, can run on Windows 95/98/NT4, and has most of the usual
GUI widgets: Buttons, Tabs, Windows, Radio Buttons, Check-Boxes etc.
It's not good at printed reports, so you would need Oracle Reports (or another program such as Crystal Reports) to create printed Reports.
I hope this helps. SQL PLus CAN be used for querying data by anyone who knows SQL, and can also be used for developing/testing DB Code: packages, procedures, functions and triggers.
In our development SQL Plus is one vital component of our development environment, but the users are never let anywhere near it!
Simon Hedges
Gloucester
UK
Received on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 14:22:35 CEST