Nick, thanks for your info. Actually, we may be set against using crystal because of lack of some features. I was thinking that may be these features are there, but we have missed them. Looks like they are indeed not there. Also the feedback I had from others seems to be fairly negative. So we may end up using some other tool after all
--- Nick Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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----- > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 9:56 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > 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 > > ===== > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: > http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Gene Gurevich > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: > (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet > access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an > E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of > 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB > ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed > from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information > (like subscribing). > ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Gene Gurevich INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
