Re: looking for a alternative reporting tool- help

From: Paul Young <youngpa>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 18:08:49 +0500
Message-Id: <9603132308.AA17552_at_statcan.ca>

In article <ABqvhGnSC6_at_sosnk.FreeNet.Kiev.UA> you wrote:
: Does anyone have any suggestions with regard to a report generation
: tool that can access ORACLE 7.2 databases, (Without using ODBC of course).
: We also must be able to call it from an ORACLE form.
 

: We are currently wrestling with Oracle reports 2.5, but are constantly having
: problems due to the amount of memory required to run the development module,
: not to mention the run time version at our site. We were recommended,
: unofficially, to beef up our developement workstations to 32 MB of ram, and
: our production clients to 16MB. This is not a luxury we can entertain right
: now as we nearing implementation and don't have time to spare.
 

: Any suggestions would be welcome, particilarly with some details if possible.
 

: Ken
: ---
: Ken Sosnoski
: Resident tax administration & technical advisor
: International Monetary Fund
: Kiev, Ukraine

I don't know if this helps... but we had exactly the same problems with the machines having the amount of memory you were recommended to obtain. Oracle Corp was of little help in this matter.

We dropped OR2.5. We didn't have time to find another tool. Instead we re-did all our fancy reports with SQL*PLUS running on the server, captured the output in files and displayed the files on the client with a basic freeware text editor (PFE). We saved a lot of time and aggivation. The reports run dependably, faster and you can view many at the same time.

We are running client server and sharing data files (written in Unix/read in Windows) using LANMAN.

Best decision ever taken on this team was to drop Oracle Reports!

PGY (Opinions expressed are mine and mine alone)

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Received on Wed Mar 13 1996 - 18:08:49 CET