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Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?

From: HansF <news.hans_at_telus.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:52:29 GMT
Message-ID: <xJZdd.24174$_u6.21078@edtnps89>


DA Morgan wrote:

>> in Ingres I ran the report with a system call, in Oracle I use Oracle
>> Reports server (with all its nasty bugs)

>
> Then you made a horrible choice of reporting software.
>

You're right. Often overlooked is Oracle's free SQLPlus & iSQLPlus which, with it's formatting capability will satisfy, a significant percentage of all reports. Especially when coupled with the new raw SQL grouping functions available such as period-over-period comparisons, etc. (No need even to go OLAP)

Sometimes the simplest solutions are best, no matter how much people sneer at them! (I already hear the howls: but , but ... <G>)

/Hans Received on Thu Oct 21 2004 - 20:52:29 CDT

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