Re: Business Objects

In article <2uv5d5$b85_at_raffles.technet.sg>

           mincomkl_at_solomon.technet.sg "Kenneth Leow Kok Siong" writes:

> I would like to find out if anyone out there has used Business Objects
> on Oracle 6 / 7. Any comments that you can offer?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Kenneth Leow
> mincomkl_at_solomon.technet.sg
>

I played with it for a while, and it seems to me that its weakness is that it assumes a perfectly Third-Normal-Form database. In nine years in the business, I have yet to see a perfectly TNF database. I also seem to remember that outer-joins blew its tiny mind.

It's the kind of thing that'll have your Managing Director tumescent with glee, though. Just let him play with it long enough to get interested in what Oracle can *really* do, then threaten to quit unless you get a substantial raise.

M

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