Re: Oracle Reporting Tool - What's your pick?

check out oracle reports 3.0, its out now... different class to 2.5 - all new interface, live previewer... and no frames in sight! Use the reports server to deploy, its fast and the reports are generated in HTML, HTMLCSS or PDF. Jeremy

Tracey Berukoff wrote in message <35859218.30A5_at_cbe.ab.ca>...
>I have been assigned the task of looking at reporting tools to use
>against an Oracle database. We currently have some reports written in
>MS-Access 7.0 but aren't very happy with the performance (win 95 to DEC
>Alpha DB Server, some SQL Pass through, some attached tables) though
>it's really easy to use. I have done a little bit of development with
>Reports 2.5 and hated it...all those frames make me dizzy and it seemed
>very akward :-)
>I've heard Crystal Reports 5.0 is also a viable option.
>
>Is there any one out there has already compared and/or utilized multiple
>reporting tools against Oracle?? If yes, what's your opinion? what are
>the problems/advantages of each in terms of usability, performance etc?
>The reports we need relate to inventory and job costing and are very
>calculation intensive.
>
>Also, some of the current Access reports use 3 or 4 layered queries (ie:
>a pass through query runs and feeds into another query which does some
>calculations etc). How would one recreate that type of processing in
>Reports 2.5?? Do you need to use temporary tables??
>
>Any help, comments or opinions would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks, Tracey
Received on Wed Jun 17 1998 - 00:00:00 CEST