Re: noncoder needs advice...

From: Tom Best <tabest_at_bellatlantic.dontspamme.net>
Date: 2000/08/01
Message-ID: <Kgyh5.3814$oA6.201396_at_typhoon2.ba-dsg.net>#1/1


Oscar:

You will probably do better with Personal Oracle than with Lite.

Check out the feature comparison on http://technet.oracle.com

HTH,
Tom Best

oscargrouch <leejackmoNOleSPAM_at_hotmail.com.invalid> wrote in message news:2390c850.c108aa00_at_usw-ex0104-031.remarq.com...
> 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 Tue Aug 01 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST

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