Re: MAC Report Writers Wanted

> Have a couple of questions - any help / info would be appreciated.
>
> o Need recommendations on report writers for the MAC
> platform. It needs to be graphical - and easy to use.
> That is to say no programming and or need to be a
> master in SQL.
>
> o Can all report writers produce a formatted report
> from a dataset? Where a dataset is the results from
> on or more queries to ORACLE?
>
> I have never no experience with report writers - I've always been
> able to get the data I need using PL*Sql and SQL*Plus, creating
> views and temporary tables for the more complicated reports. Which
> is unacceptable for ad-Hoc end user queries.

To accomplish all of this you will need two parts: the desktop application and some middleware (see next paragraph). On the desktop, couple of nice ones you might want to take a look at are GQL (and/orPaBLO) from Andyne Computing, DataPrism from Brio Technology, and ClearAccess from Fairfield Software. Mac (and Windows I believe) versions available for all three.

All these applications work with middleware based on the DAL and ODBC standards (DAL allows connections to other databases and/or platforms). Other availble middleware products include HyperStar from VMark/Constellation, EDA/SQL from Informantion Builders, and SequeLink from Techgnosis. Check with them to see if these or other applications will work.

If you would like more information on DAL and the DAL/ODBC implimentation mentioned above, please let me know.

-- 
***************************************************************
Paul Mergener
Pacer Software                  "Keeping You Well Connected"
pmerge_at_pacersoft.com
508-898-3300                     FAX 508-366-1356
***************************************************************