Re: What reporting tool do you use?

[Quoted] >> Why is it seemingly so hard for people to give a short >> paragraph of background when posting questions? Why? Why? Why?

I think one explanantion may be this: some people just don't have experience with ng's, much less this one. I don't think people omit information on purpose.

In article <3C72C00F.B65D218F_at_ci.seattle.wa.us>, dan.morgan_at_ci.seattle.wa.us says...
> There are lots of them. In addition to Oracle Reports there is Oracle
> Discoverer, Seagate's Crystal product line, Cognos, Brio, and probably a
> dozen others.
>
> But you have asked a question without providing any context. Do you need
> triggers to prepare the data? Do you need to execute procedures or use
> functions in the database? Are you a prorammer or end user? What platform
> (hardware and operating system version). How many reports? How complex?
> Web or client server? Do you need to do cross-tabs? Aggregations? Output
> as PDF?
>
> Once again I ask the question ... Are we just supposed to guess? Why is
> it seemingly so hard for people to give a short paragraph of background
> when posting questions? Why? Why? Why?
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
>
>
> Rudi Ernst wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > in a new project I have to write some reports based on Oracle
> > Database Tables. Are there any reporting tools beside Oracle Reports?
> > And which one do you recommend?
> >
> > Thanks for any link to a usefull product.
> >
> > Rudi
>
>
Received on Wed Feb 20 2002 - 15:26:30 CET