General question re: Report generation
At work I need to generate monthly and other occassional reports out of
an Oracle database. I started doing this years ago before I knew Linux
existed, and use Crystal Reports on Windows to generate those reports.
Crystal Reports is a drag-n-drop/point-n-click app that lets you create
a "template" for how your report will look, and requires minimal
knowledge of SQL (and my knowledge of SQL is indeed minimal -- I'm an
"appliance operator" concerning dbms stuff). It uses ODBC to connect to
the Oracle database.
Question: How is this done in *nix (in general terms)? If I want to do
it from my Debian box, will I have to learn Perl/Python/etc (which I'm
not opposed to; it's just another steep slope on getting there from
here)? Is there a drag-n-drop replacement for Crystal on *nix? Will I
need to use some sort of ODBC tool, or is there a more direct route to
the data in the database? (I've played some with some *nix-flavored ODBC
tools, and didn't have a lot of success, but mostly due to my general
ignorance of things Database.)
Thanks for any hints!
Kent
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