Re: I HATE Oracle Reports! Anything better out there?

Ben McMurry wrote:
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> Anybody had experience with report-writing tools other than Oracle
> Reports? I find Reports to be very cumbersome to use. It's designed
> for non-programmers, and I'm a programmer who's mainly interested in
> getting out reports quickly. I can write/supply the SQL myself.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Ben McMurry
> fmc_at_ornl.gov

There is a product which used to be produced by a company named Gupta and was called SqlWindows. They were bought out by a company called Centura (spelling???) and the product was renamed.

This produce it mainly designed to create Windows gui applications, but it has a very powerful set of reporting tools and you can basically control it every step of the way using your own sql and cursors as well as a rich set of functions to manipulate the data.

I used the SqlWindows product several years back and I wish I knew then what I know now about the Windows API and how to handle events.

Anothing thing you may want to look at is Visual Basic. It has a hobbled form of Crystal Reports in it, but the beauty is that you can write whatever code you want to produce the header and detail lines and then just send it to the Crystal Reports template. It would definitely appeal to programmers and it is client-based rather than host-based - you are doing your reports work client-server aren't you? Received on Fri Apr 07 2000 - 13:42:52 CEST