Re: What reporting tool do you use?

But don't they read the fact that many of us over and over ask the same thing ... give us the background?

Sorry ... purely rhetorical question. No need to answer.

Daniel Morgan

tojo wrote:

> >> Why is it seemingly so hard for people to give a short
> >> paragraph of background when posting questions? Why? Why? Why?
>
> I think one explanantion may be this: some people just don't have
> experience with ng's, much less this one. I don't think people omit
> information on purpose.
>
> In article <3C72C00F.B65D218F_at_ci.seattle.wa.us>,
> dan.morgan_at_ci.seattle.wa.us says...
> > There are lots of them. In addition to Oracle Reports there is Oracle
> > Discoverer, Seagate's Crystal product line, Cognos, Brio, and probably a
> > dozen others.
> >
> > But you have asked a question without providing any context. Do you need
> > triggers to prepare the data? Do you need to execute procedures or use
> > functions in the database? Are you a prorammer or end user? What platform
> > (hardware and operating system version). How many reports? How complex?
> > Web or client server? Do you need to do cross-tabs? Aggregations? Output
> > as PDF?
> >
> > Once again I ask the question ... Are we just supposed to guess? Why is
> > it seemingly so hard for people to give a short paragraph of background
> > when posting questions? Why? Why? Why?
> >
> > Daniel Morgan
> >
> >
> >
> > Rudi Ernst wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > in a new project I have to write some reports based on Oracle
> > > Database Tables. Are there any reporting tools beside Oracle Reports?
> > > And which one do you recommend?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any link to a usefull product.
> > >
> > > Rudi
> >
> >
Received on Wed Feb 20 2002 - 22:56:16 CET