RE: User Query Tools

2001-09-11 Thread Thomas, Kevin
It's your worst nightmare come true!!! The users want to do it 'cause a) IS charge to much for the work b) All it is is a bunch of stuff in a big file thing, how difficult could it be? c) Isn't it just like a big spreadsheet only different? d) I built one at home so I know what to look for (t

RE: User Query Tools

2001-09-10 Thread Henry Poras
You kidding? That sounds like our developers. Henry -Original Message- Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 6:52 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hey all, I just got out from a meeting where I was told that some of our users are asking for a tool to do their own queries agai

Re: User Query Tools

2001-09-10 Thread Jared Still
There are products that can be used to enforce what kind of queries run on your database. Very expenive, lot's of setup. Some of you may still be interested though. www.teleran.com Jared On Monday 10 September 2001 17:40, Charlie Mengler wrote: > Just be prepared to watch response time for h

Re: User Query Tools

2001-09-10 Thread Charlie Mengler
Just be prepared to watch response time for honest OLTP work to increase through the roof. Almost daily I have adhoc query folks throw onto the DB a "query from hades" which result in 3 - 6 way cartesian joins of tables with hundred of millions of rows EACH. When the first query does not return re

Re: User Query Tools

2001-09-10 Thread Regina Harter
G-d, yes, we have users like that. Most of the products we looked at required too much space, were too expensive, or required too much initial set up time. We ended up writing our own Adhoc Query tool in PowerBuilder. At 02:52 PM 9/10/01 -0800, you wrote: >Hey all, > >I just got out from a me

Re: User Query Tools

2001-09-10 Thread Joe Testa
recommendation: ensure you give those users separate profiles/consumer user group so they dont totally hog the machine with cartesian join queries. :) joe Hey all, I just got out from a meeting where I was told that some of our users are asking for a tool to do their own queries against ou

RE: User Query Tools

2001-09-10 Thread Kevin Lange
We use Cognos as a user report tool.  They seem to like it.   You can build a library of reports for them or they can build their own.     Bad side .  it does not make the most efficient SQL calls.   -Original Message-From: Stephen Andert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Mo