Re: Oracle 10g Graphics question

Daniel,
[Quoted] [Quoted]   Oracle reports is not what I would call a great product. It seems to resemble a DOS or early windows product they never really enhanced other than moving the product up in every version of the database..

 I hate to compare it to ... Crystal Reports, but the development interface is a lot better in Crystal Reports than Oracle Reports..

However, where I am at now, we are moving Crystal Reports to a custom APEX [Quoted] application and BI Publisher... However, the powers that be are looking at Hyperion....

Thank you,

Tony Miller
UTMB/EHN
"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message news:1195679153.94240_at_bubbleator.drizzle.com...
> Frank van Bortel wrote:
>> DA Morgan wrote:
>>> Agnes wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I hope I am not sending this to the wrong group, but I need some help
>>>> solving a problem.
>>>>
>>>> I'm supposed to create a graph which combines two sets of data, and I
>>>> can't figure out how to do it, or if it's at all possible.
>>>>
>>>> The graph has to show actual time intervals for specific transaccions,
>>>> as bars (different series possible for every transaccion), as well as
>>>> overlap those bars with a line indicating the desired time intervall
>>>> for the respective transaccion.
>>>>
>>>> A simple bar/line combination graph is eassy to make, but in this case
>>>> there's under-elements in the real time-intervals, and no such for the
>>>> desired time-intervalls, and whatever I try, the resulting graph is -
>>>> to say it mildly - a mess.
>>>>
>>>> I'd be gratefull for any help solving this.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Agnes
>>> Oracle 10g is a database not a report writing tool. What front-end
>>> product do you intend to use to create the graph? Might I suggest
>>> Oracle Discoverer, the Hyperion line of products, Oracle Reports,
>>> Business Objects and Crystal Reports, etc.?
>>
>> Daniel! Read up on the product guide, and find Oracle Graphics!
>> It's been a member of the Developer Suite since RPT/RPF, or thereabout.
>> Didn't it replace OMA, or OPA back in the 80's
>>
>> I have not seen it so long I dare not just respond to the OP with
>> a mere "goo luck" - I think knowledge of the product is hard, very
>> hard to find.
>
> If ever Oracle had a synapse-free brain-dead product that deserved
> to be buried in an unmarked grave ... Oracle Graphics was it. I built
> one application using it back in the 90's and after treatment for
> post-traumatic stress and a 12 step program gave it up.
>
> Oracle's newer reporting products are a huge improvement. Heck almost
> everybody's reporting tools are a huge improvement.
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> Oracle Ace Director & Instructor
> University of Washington
> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
> Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
> www.psoug.org
Received on Thu Nov 22 2007 - 04:27:37 CET