Oracle-L: RE: {SPAM?} RE: Teradata baned from IOUG???

From: Jamadagni, Rajendra <Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:29:29 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0054D993.20030214072929@fatcity.com>

Well,

I see one reason ... (I am no expert in Oracle reports), but it seems more maintainable to write in SQR than in reports (so they claim here). Plus SQR can act asa glorified data loader when a bunch of processing needs to be done on incoming raw data.

I wouldn't discount SQR right away, but after all it is almost glorified COBOL (IMHO). Doing dynamic SQL is much much easier in SQR than in Oracle Reports (again my experience SQR 4/5/6 and ORacle Reports 6/6i). SQRs use of lookup tables and breaks make life simpler as well. It has usable array interface ... for data processing. We have couple of SQR reports that run in about 4000 lines of code (don't ask me why)

My $0.01
Raj

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We looked at SQR in 94.

We didn't have need of controlling fonts and such, which I guess SQR is good at.

The SQR rep could come up with no compelling reason to use SQR rather than Perl, so simple ( as in not much procedural processing needed ) reports were done in Sqlplus. Anything complex was done in Perl.

We never regretted that decision.

Jared

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