Re: Whats the best development tool for Oracle 8i?

From: Dirk Bellemans <Dirk.Bellemans_at_skynet.belgium>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 09:43:13 +0100
Message-ID: <93p3um$iu4$1_at_news0.skynet.be>


If you've got the money to spent and the time to learn, user Designer. In the (very) long run it is by far teh most efficient tool.

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Dirk Bellemans
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"Charles" <charles_at_vertigen1999.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:932tf1$ufo$1_at_newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...

> Any advice, or experiences will be greatly appreciated....
>
> I will be using Oracle 8i to store several million rows of data in roughly
> 40 tables.
> The destination platform will be an NT box probably 1.4Ghz + box with
> plenty of memory (maybe 1 gig).
> No network, just a single PC with a front end and the Oracle RDBMS.
>
> Question:
>
> What is the best 4GL development tool to develop a front end to display
the
> data in various predefined
> and user defined ways? (On the fly query generation I guess).
>
> I would ideally like to use something new(ish).
>
> My thoughts are:
>
> Forms,
> VB
> VJava etc....
>
> I need something which will work reasonably quick, with a decent look and
> feel to it.
> (I have to consider testing tools available for this product, as I need
100%
> statement coverage - or as near as possible). If there is a COTS testing
> product which goes hand in hand with the development tool, then all the
> better.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on which would be the best to use? (Given about
4
> months to comlete the task).
>
> (I have previous Windows 4GL/RDBMS Ingres experience with plenty of 3GL
> thrown in).
>
> Thanks very much for any input.
>
> Charles.
>
>
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