Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?
From: HansF <news.hans_at_telus.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:52:29 GMT
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> Then you made a horrible choice of reporting software.
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:52:29 GMT
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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)
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> Then you made a horrible choice of reporting software.
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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 Fri Oct 22 2004 - 03:52:29 CEST