Re: Report Writer for Oracle
Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 13:21:14 GMT
Message-ID: <Cq3rrF.FCD_at_netnews.whoi.edu>
In article <551kmc1w165w_at_vicuna.ocunix.on.ca> frampton_at_vicuna.ocunix.on.ca writes:
>> In article <2r7405$1pj_at_raffles.technet.sg> limsc_at_solomon.technet.sg (Lim Suat
>>
>> >My site has been using SQl*Reportwriter for the past one and half years and
>> >found it rather restrictive. For oce, we cannot read and write direct to UNI
>> >files. Secondly, we found that we have to create alot of temporary tables in
>> >our database to keep intermediate data generated/required by
>> >SQL*Reportwriter.
>> >Is anyone one of you using a reportwriter that is more user friendly ?
>
>You might want to take a look at GQL which is produced by Andyne
>Computing. They can be reached at:
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I too found SQL*Reportwriter limiting and PL*SQL/SQL*Plus lacked the flexability I needed to generate complex reports.
Thank heven I found OraPerl. OraPerl is the Perl interface into Oracle. Perl supports report writting (headers, detail lines, page numbers, etc) and Perl itself is a powerful script language. Get a copy of Perl and OraPerl and give it a try.
David Hiltz
dhiltz_at_whsun1.wh.whoi.edu
Network System Administrator
Northeast Fisheries Science Center
######&_at_&###### Received on Fri May 20 1994 - 15:21:14 CEST