Re: Advice on reporting on Oracle

In article <fvelden.22.0036CA78_at_intersun.gak.nl>

           fvelden_at_intersun.gak.nl "Frans-Willem van der Velden" writes:
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> Internetters and Oracle-gurus,
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> What tool or tools would you use if :
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> You were asked to do reporting on an oracle database on the vax/vms platform
> with the need for scheduled standard reporting and very user friendly ad hoc
> reporting.
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> The user wants to be as independant of IS as possible, does not want to
> understand sql and relational schema's.
>
> What would you use????

I would use CorVu running either under MS-Windows or X-Windows. It is a complete decision support tool for endusers including querying, graphing and report writing. It is all point and click and you can make your table and column names look meaningful to a user. All it needs is DECnet or TCP/IP, but it supports ODBC and SQLnet as well.

An added bonus is the EIS-type data drill-down functionality built in to the basic product. It can place graphs on the same page as data in reports.

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John Bornholt
bornholt_at_isluk.demon.co.uk