Re: The easier report writer for Oracle ?
Date: 13 Feb 1995 20:37:13 GMT
Message-ID: <3hoftp$shs_at_amdint.amd.com>
Hi,
Following are a list of reporting tools that you may take a
second look at:
o MS/Access
o IQ from Norcross, GA. Louis Labash (404) 446-8880 x543
o Andye GQL from Ontario, Canada Tammy MacKenzie (800) 267-0665 x1202
o Crystal Reports (I heard someone mentioned that this is also
a good tool, but I don't know where it is
based.)
Pros/Cons::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
MS/Access
MS/Access is a PC/Windows tool (so it doesn't run on unix).
For the price of it(under $200.00), it offers one hell of a package where you can do queries, reports and even application development.
It generates true user-report where the user can customize style, font, size, border, pictures and etc to get professional reports out.
It is really very easy to use (Especially if you compared to the old Oracle report 2.0)
It used ODBC driver connection. So far, we haven't find a good reliable ODBC for all our user environments.
It also does a lot of things locally if you are running typical SQL and not use PL/SQL that is offered in Oracle 7. That meant the load on the PC is pretty high.
IQ
IQ is also a good tool. It is portable between PC and UNIX. I don't know about Mac, you may want to check with them.
It is also very easy to use, and the sale person (Louis) seems to be pretty responsive (at least during our evaluation period).
Andye's GQL
Well, this isn't a real reporting tool. It is basically just a ad-hoc user quering tool. The user can printout/save the results in Ascii format and that's about it. There are some formatting capability but no much. I mentioned this because I wasn't sure if you really want to give your users reporting capability or querying capability. For a query tool, this is very good.
Well, I hope this helps... Can you send me an email on what you have selected and how it turned out? Thanks...
--cley
staccuc_at_riq.qc.ca (Sylvain Taccucci) wrote:
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> I'm looking for a good report writer for an Oracle V7 database, to be
> use by the users of the system not the programmer. I know that Oracle
> Report 2.5 is a good report writer, but it's too complex for non-programmer
> type user.
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> Any suggestion will by appreciated.
Received on Mon Feb 13 1995 - 21:37:13 CET