Re: Best way to Extract Data from Oracle into Excel

From: Ingo Peters <ipeters_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:25:02 -0600
Message-ID: <oOSdne_hvIsTk4nfRVn-gA_at_rogers.com>


On 2005-02-16, Hank <hank755_ca_at_yahoo.ca> wrote:
> I'm looking at ways to generate reports based on data in an Oracle
> database. This data will be viewed in Excel.
>
> I've looked at Oracle Reports and Oracle Discoverer as possible tools,
> but reports created in either of the 2 applications lose their
> formatting upon exporting to Excel.

Oracle Reports can produce formatted Excel reports via the web. Actually, it produces HTML code that gets read and interpreted by Excel.

Regards,

Ingo Received on Thu Feb 17 2005 - 04:25:02 CET

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