Xref: alice comp.databases.oracle.tools:42500 Message-ID: <38EEAFF8.D20C22BD@greennet.net> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 00:05:12 -0400 From: David Sanderson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools Subject: Re: I HATE Oracle Reports! Anything better out there? References: <38ecf59a.29136806@news.ornl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.192.4.76 X-Trace: 8 Apr 2000 00:05:20 -0400, 208.192.4.76 Lines: 19 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.192.4.30 Path: alice!news-feed.fnsi.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer1.nac.net!news.greennet.net!208.192.4.76 Ken Halsted wrote: > > Ben, > > Just wanted to let you know that when I first started with Oracle Reports > about a year and a half ago, I was ready to take the CD and burn it. > > Then I realized it's easier to just create a report from scratch. Do it > manually. Start with setting the report up (we use all text mode reports > here) and get a general heading frame setup and the general layout setup and > then save it (so you can use it as a template for other reports later). > SQR is procedural, has been around a long time, and works for people who want to write code. -- David Sanderson West Newbury, Massachusetts