Re: suggestions for good graphical DB query builder

[Quoted] [Quoted] You appear to be totally disconnected from the real world - probably what comes with teaching too long.

If you had any current industrial experience, especially in investment banking then you would discover that Access (albeit a pain) and Excel for that matter are both successfully being used by sales traders, salesman and analysts throughout that industry as a database tool.

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"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message 
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> David Segall wrote:


>> carol_marra_at_msn.com wrote:
>>
[Quoted] [Quoted] >>> We're doing a product comparison for graphical query builders. Would
>>> appreciate
[Quoted] >>> your input on what you like (or don't).
>>>
>>> We're an Oracle shop, but we need connectivity w/ any ODBC compliant
>>> DB.
>>> Also need query result export options (esp Excel), pivot capability,
>>> printable results,
>>> Windows compliant.
>> Microsoft Access?
>


> I can't think of a worse tool.


>


> The last thing Oracle needs is to be connected to an insecure (ODBC)


> tool that could potentially be used to alter data and in which you

> couln't write a decent SQL statement more complex than SELECT *

> FROM t;.

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