Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!diku!ambush!kimcm
From: kimcm@ambush.UUCP (Kim Chr. Madsen)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re^2: ORACLE
Message-ID: <611@ambush.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 88 10:51:25 GMT
References: <315@Aragorn.dde.uucp> <7458@ncoast.UUCP> <880@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM>
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In article <7458@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
>I have only one question about Oracle.  Can't they come up with a better
>report writer than RPT/RPF?  I've been writing reports by doing the queries
>in SQL*Plus and piping the output through sed to *Unify* RPT!

I don't know much about Oracle or their report generator, I however
have tried other RDBMS System's report-generators and found them all
insufficient for dealing with complex reports in an straight forward
manner the RG's are simply too inflexible. Luckily I was running on a
fully equipped UNIX System and found comfort in using AWK as a report
generator. Actually I have grown into the belief that AWK might be the
best tool for making reports due to its flexibility and brute force in
programming aspects.

In article <880@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM> dgrimmer@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (Dave Grimmer) writes:
>It seems as if many of the components of ORACLE are not well integrated.
>The product could benefit greatly with a comprehensive data dictionary.
>PROGRESS Forever :-)

I fail to see why so many people seems to think that integrated
products are so beautiful! The problem with integrated problems as I
see it is that it puts unnecessary constraints on the user. The user
of a system should be free to choose which tools he wants to use for a
certain task. For example it makes me mad if I by using a database
system are forced to use the systems report generator and are not free
to choose my own -- the one I'm familiar with or the one I think does
the job best. Likewise I would like the database to be accessable by
other tools than just the database-system itself!


					Best Regards
					Kim Chr. Madsen.