Re: Query tool for smart usersQ
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 08:56:53 -0800
Message-ID: <qzMvb.13734$kl6.10242_at_fed1read03>
Lee wrote:
> I have some fairly tech friendly users who would like to be able to do
> their own SQL queries.
>
> Two problems:
> 1. Can anyone suggest a good book on SQL (better yet, Oracle's flavor of
> SQL) that might be appropriate for people with
> a technical mind set but pretty much zero background in databases,
> Oracle, query languages, etc,
Tom Kyte's Expert One on One
>
> 2. Natrurally we can set them (the users, I mean) with sql*plus BUT
> thats pretty spartan. They would be using wintel clients to access our
> remote UNIX server.
What else do you require that SQL*plus does not do?
[Quoted] How about MS ACCESS?
> Can anyone suggest a better tool, either Oracle or thrird party? If
> third party its got to be cheap (GJ Linker's SQL*XL
> qualifies, for example)
Quantify "better".
[Quoted] Based upon what criteria?
[Quoted] To a large degree SQL is SQL.
Received on Sat Nov 22 2003 - 17:56:53 CET