Jeff wrote:
> "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> news:1093194494.325919_at_yasure...
>
>>Query the data dictionary views. Run this query for a list of them.
>>
>>SELECT view_name
>>FROM all_views
>>WHERE view_name LIKE 'ALL%';
>>
>>But why connect to Oracle with MS Access? An overwhelming desire to use
>>the worst possible tool to do the job?
>
>
> HAHAHAHA. No, us low ranking po' folk in the military don't have Oracle
> installed let alone get Oracle training, or ANY database training for that
> matter. All government desktop PCs come with Microsoft Access installed and
> I had to teach myself to use it. I have a couple of stand-alone
> applications I have to use that connect to an Oracle database, but the
> applications leave ALOT to be desired because I still have to build my own
> lists of data and compile statistics by hand over and over. If I can
> connect to the Oracle database with Access and ADO, I can build my own
> queries and reports once and be done with it at the click of a button
> whenever it's needed. Whether or not Access and ADO are the worst possible
> tools, it's still a hell of alot faster than doing it by hand the way I do
> it now. The Oracle database I tried to connect to turned out to have about
> 2000 tables with a jillion fields. I need to figure out what the
> relationships are before I can build my own queries.
>
> Jeff
You are in the wrong part of the military. Those fine folks out here at
.navy.mil have Oracle and take classes. Budgets aren't what they were
but they get far better than MS Access.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)
Received on Sun Aug 22 2004 - 16:52:41 CDT
