Re: NEED HELP BADLY!!!

[Quoted] First of all, I have a feeling many people here are in the IS sector, and I [Quoted] know for sure we all *hate!!* end-users developing their own application because in the end we will be assigned to cleaning out your *mess*. The IS people are just overloaded by requests from people like you, who don't know what they want and assume they can get unlimited resources, while [Quoted] management keeps cutting back on funds while what they would need to do is - either enlarge the IS-department
- or make sure their end-users get properly educated in end-user applications.

This is probably one of the reasons why you didn't get responses, people like you shouldn't be encouraged without *proper* training.

This all may sound hostile, but I have been working for years in similar situations. In the end *I* had to clean out *your messes*. Please don't blame the IS department for it, you are as much at fault as they are.

That all said,

There is *NO* Oracle tool that doesn't require to write code,except for maybe Oracle Discoverer.

Oracle 8i is a standalone PC version of Oracle. AFAIK it doesn't have the distributed option, it definitely doesn't have the advanced replicate option, both of which you need to 'replicate a couple of their schemas'. Question: How is going to keep them in sync? You are? Don't you think you need Oracle/coding expertise for this? IS is going to do [Quoted] it? I'm sure they will just *love* you for it. Get proper resources, create a project, and have *them* to what you want. *They* are paid for it, you are not. *They* have the proper knowledge, you *don't* and when you
proceed, you are just on your own way to hell.

Sorry,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"oscargrouch" <leejackmoNOleSPAM_at_hotmail.com.invalid> wrote in message news:3b34e9b1.3c5852a8_at_usw-ex0104-028.remarq.com...
> Please forgive me for posting this again, but since it was the
> weekend and noone responded, I figured I would give all you
> geniuses another shot at it... ;-]
>
> I'll try to make this as short as I can.
> I'm a financial guy who uses an Oracle DW at my company. I saw a
> sales demo of Oracle Reports. It looks awesome...I could publish
> my queries and stuff for access with a browser.
>
> My main problem is that I have lots of tables and stuff I have
> to use that aren't in Oracle. I have no permission to put stuff
> there and the IS people are slow at best...I basically have no
> method of getting what I need into Oracle in any timely
> fashion...so I have to use Access, Excel, and other various half-
> assed methods to make db info available to my bosses without me
> having to publish manually...so my first question is...
>
> Assuming I could get a space to place tables and develop my own
> schemas, is there an Oracle tool I could use to create
> procedures and schemas and such that doesn't require me to write
> code?
>
> Now for the really ugly part...
>
> There's a decent chance that I won't get the permission to do
> the stuff I talked about above...so I want to know this, also...
>
> Is there an Oracle tool (I've seen 8i Personal, but don't know
> what it is) that would allow me to (easily, with no or very very
> little code) replicate a couple of their schemas onto my own box
> and then do the development work I described above there?
>
> Any help on any of this is much appreciated and I'll still be
> your friend when I'm famous.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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Received on Mon Jul 31 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST