Re: Impromptu
Date: 1995/10/13
Message-ID: <1995Oct13.134212.27697_at_iqsc.com>#1/1
Ed Bruce (edward_at_igate1.hac.com) wrote: : In article <596787804wnr_at_mrush.demon.co.uk>, mike_at_mrush.demon.co.uk wrote:
: > I was specifically interested in a tool which can connect to an
: This is the second post to mention this, am I missing something. Why don't
: you create a view that performs the join?
The main reason you don't is that users will want lots and lots of different
things joined, because by definition this is "ad-hoc" reporting. In
addition, these joins may be temporary - for a single run of a report.
You don't want to create the maintenance headache of managing hundreds or
: > Oracle database server and which hides the complexities of database
: > structures from users. I didn't want users having to specify
: > table joins etc in their reports. (Reportsmith requires you to do this)
: ^^^^^
Regards,
matt
-- Matthew Reedy Chief Technical Officer IQ Software Corporation Internet: matt_at_iqsc.com 400 N Loop 1604 E, Suite 100 San Antonio, TX 78232 (210) 490 6684 Fax: (210) 490-3590Received on Fri Oct 13 1995 - 00:00:00 CET