Darlene Armstrong-Smith

Almost perfect for it's intended job, this book will show you how to get the best out of the current (2008) version of Oracle's reporting tool for it's Oracle database. Not only does it show how to create queries but also how to make them look good as reports (often a separate operation).

There is a fairly comprehensive set of appendices that describe the various built in functions available to the Discoverer query writer - I would have liked a few more examples at this point but it is possible to figure out how to use even the more obscure ones with a bit of patience. Rather impressively, this was useful even though we don't currently use this version at work yet.

Unless you are actually administrating a Discoverer server, the last section won't be of much more than academic interest.

Michael's Gold Mine of Answers to FAQs provide a sample of solutions that Michael has created in response to questions raised on-line. Again, maybe not the most directly useful section, but of general interest.… (meer)