if you are dead-set using crystal... I feel your pain. In a previous life (job) I was a report writer/integrator... we used a Delphi front end, and Crystal provided us a couple of nice utilities to get into the structure of the application and change many of the queries and results. We would give it different queries to run, different where clauses, even include hints. And then we gave our users a limited number of different options in the gui so they did not hurt themselves or our database.
otherwise, skip to something a little nicer... I have heard Brio works very well.
Nick
-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Gurevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 9:56 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Crystal Report as an ad-hoc tool
Hi all:
My users are considering using Crystal reports as an
ad-hoc tool to query a DSS. They ran into several
issues however using it. I was wondering if someone
out there has ehough experience with that tool to shed
some light.
Issue 1. Whenever Crystal creates a query it only
create a one-pass sql. If the sql goes against a large
number of large tables, we'd rather have the query
split into several smaller 'create table as"
statements, the result sets of which will be combined
into the final result set. IS there a option in
Crystal to allow the "multi-pass" queries?
Issue 2. Kind of subset of the previous one. Does
Crystal allow users to create tables at all? It seems
to be a "read only" tool as far as we can see. Is this
correct?
thanks for any help
Gene
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