Re: User Query Tools

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 meeting where I was told that some of our users are
>asking for a tool to do their own queries against our database so they
>wouldn't have to request reports and such from IS. Oh BTW, they don't
>know (or feel the need to learn) SQL so they will be needing something
>with either a good GUI QBF or some kind of natural language interface.
>
>We are leaning against MS Query to avoid ODBC performance problems.
>
>Does anyone out there have users like this? Any product referrals with
>pros/cons?
>
>TIA
>
>If you have any questions, please feel free to call me or drop me a note.
>
>Stephen Andert
>480-445-2506

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