Re: Client access app of choice

Rick-
We use MS Access(Object Access) for client access. Before deciding on Access we looked at Brio and HummingBird and decided they were too 'deep' for our end-users. They needed something that they could learn quickly with little down time spent on instruction and/or training. We could also install the ODBC client side in about 10 minutes.
Kathe

Rick Osterberg wrote:

> What are people's applications of choice for end-user client ad-hoc access
> to Oracle data? We're running 8.0.5, soon to be 8.1.6 on Unix (Digital
> Unix), and being academic, we are very Unix-centric on our central
> systems. We run Solaris on our web servers, and Digital/Compaq Tru64 Unix
> on our interactive login/programming/etc. systems.
>
> Most of our development work, in practice, is done in Perl with DBI on
> Unix systems, which makes life very easy to get to and from Oracle data.
>
> However, we have a growing need for certain folks to have quick direct
> access to raw data, outside of our applications. Most of these people are
> Windows-based, and SQL-Plus is a bit of a nightmare interface for these
> kinds of people.
>
> What do people like to use for end-user data access for things like
> this? I've looked at things like linking in ODBC tables through MS
> Access, which works pretty well, if a little clunky. It also seems yucky
> that getting ODBC connection setup is a rather large effort. I took a
> quick look at Oracle Discoverer 3i, but that seems enormously
> heavyweight. And it wants me to dedicate a Windows NT machine for its
> exclusive use as a session server or something.
>
> Any tips appreciated! Thanks.
>
> -Rick
>
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Kathe C. Newsome
Centenary College of Louisiana
Sr. Software Manager/Database Administrator
Email : knewsome_at_centenary.edu
Telephone : 318.869.5213