Re: Asking for opinion on Oracle Reports

I've used Oracle Reports. It's extremely powerful, and for complex reports (we have one report with >100 queries in it, which dynamically creates and populates about half a dozen temporary tables, dropping them when completed) it's very good. However (at least with v2.5) the part of Forms which enables users to enter runtime parameters is rather naff, and the layout editor can be a little fiddly.

Otherwise, it's pretty good and pretty stable. It's rather slow to load at runtime (takes about 30 seconds on my PC, even for the simplest Reports). THis is in client server mode - we don't use the web.

>Marc Feuerstein wrote in message <7g1m2e$k05$1_at_xenon.inbe.net>...

Any relation to Stephen?

>Hello,
>I would like to know if any of you encountered any problems using Oracle
>Reports (as a user or a designer) regarding stability, ease of use,
>web-viewing, etc...
>
>I would like to have an overall idea of this product, based on objective
>opinions, and not only Oracle publicity.

Very wise!

Simon Hedges
Gloucester
UK Received on Mon Apr 26 1999 - 18:15:49 CEST