home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!usc!news.service.uci.edu!beckman.com!deflenniken
- From: deflenniken@beckman.com
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: SQR
- Message-ID: <1992Dec9.163332.1064@beckman.com>
- Date: 9 Dec 92 16:33:32 PDT
- References: <1992Dec8.223829.11515@mr.med.ge.com> <6514.2b25ae0c@hayes.com>
- Organization: Beckman Instruments, Inc.
- Lines: 62
-
- In article <6514.2b25ae0c@hayes.com>, fgreene@hayes.com writes:
- > In article <1992Dec8.223829.11515@mr.med.ge.com>, sidney@picard.med.ge.com (W. T. Sidney MFG Project Eng. X46324) writes:
- >> I'm interested in a report writer for oracle, other than SQL*ReportWriter.
- >> I've been told to look at SQR.
- >>
- >> Does any one have any info on SQR or any other Third (3rd) party report
- >> writers?
- >>
- >> Thanks
- >>
- >> --
- >> -=Sid=-
- >
- >
- > SQR is a good product that includes a capability to generate matrix
- > reports. There is a fairly steep learning curve, but once you get into the
- > syntax it is easy to use. Only shortcoming I have come across is that
- > the product has no statistical capabilities. That is, give me the
- > standard deviation, average, variance, etc., for a column or row of
- > numbers.
- >
-
- SQR doesn't need simple statistical functions, since they are supplied
- by Oracle in standard SQL query.
-
- E.g. begin-select
- AVG(col)
- STDDEV(col)
- VARIANCE(col)
- FROM Table
- WHERE ...
- end-select
-
- [user soapbox on]
-
- I've climbed the learning curve hill for SQR, RPT, SQL*Reportwriter and
- 'C' with embedded SQL, and SQR was by far the easiest to learn and the
- quickest to become productive at. It is a very rich procedural report writer
- with a somewhat quirky syntax. There is not much that we have not been able
- to do in SQR. We use it for batch programming, and call it from SQL*Forms as
- well as useing it for report writing.
-
- Highly recommended (me speaking not my employer).
-
- [user soapbox off]
-
- ..Darrell Flenniken
-
- Beckman Instruments
-
-
-
- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > | Frank Greene | ////// ////// |
- > | DELPHI SYSTEMS, Inc. | //// //// |
- > | Telephone [615] 458-6032 | //// //// ////// |
- > | 324 Ootsima Way | //// //// //// |
- > | Loudon, TN 37774 | ////// ////// ////// |
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > | Of course, any opinions or suggestions are strictly my own |
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >
-