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Hi,
Can anyone explain what is a SQL*Report?
Appreciate for this help
Thanks
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Aph,
If i am correct, earlier version of Oracle reports are called as SQL reports. Same with Forms.
Thanks
GD_1976.
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Hi gd_1976,
Actually can you go in more detail and explain little more?
Thanks
aph
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APH,
A very brief history of Oracle's report writing tools (latest first):
Oracle Reports (v6i, v6, v3, v2.5, v2)
SQL*ReportWriter (v1.1, v1.0)
SQL*Report
(before this I don't know - maybe nothing?)
SQL*ReportWriter was newish when I first started working with Oracle products, almost 12 years ago. I think SQL*Report was desupported not long after that, although I wasn't using it at the time, so that wasn't important to me (I never used it much anyway).
An .rpt file was the "report design" for SQL*Report as per the .rdf for Reports Developer, but it was a text file that was edited directly - there was no design tool. The .rpt file was basically a command file allowing some sort of "procedural" processing of data with commands for writing output to files (SQL*Report a "language" unto itself - each command starting with a ".").
This is a very high level overview of SQL*Report, based on some fairly vague memories.
As a note - despite the similarity in names, SQL*Report and SQL*ReportWriter were completely different products. There was no automated upgrade path (SQL*Report provided a lot of procedural functionality that was not avaliable in SQL*ReportWriter - which was basically a MUCH simpler version of the current Oracle Reports without PL/SQL). I vaguely remember a 3rd party utility that converted SQL*Report .rpt files to Pro*C, but not much more than that.
I hope that this helps, but I don't know what sort of answers you were looking/hoping for.
Thanks,
twinn
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Hi Twinn,
Thank you so much for this detail explanation.
aph
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