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Oracle Discoverer FAQ

$Date: 08-May-2000 $
$Revision: 0.01 $
$Author: Frank Naudé $

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What is Oracle Discoverer and what is it good for?

What are the components of Oracle Discoverer?

Can one access non Oracle databases via Discoverer?

Where can one get more information about Oracle Discoverer?

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What is Oracle Discoverer and what is it good for?

Oracle Discoverer (like Oracle Reports and Express Objects) is part of Oracle's Business Intelligence set of tools. Discoverer is intended to provide end users easy access to data and allow them to do data analysis and set-up ad-hoc queries.

What are the components of Oracle Discoverer?

(Web) Viewer Edition
The Viewer Edition is used to view pre-defined reports. Viewer Edition is currently available for the Web only.
User Edition
The User Edition is used by end users to perform ad hoc-query, reporting, analysis and web publishing.
Administration Edition
The Administration Edition is used to create and maintain the "End User Layer" (EUL) which is a metadata layer that hides the complexity of the database from end users.

Can one access non-Oracle databases via Discoverer?

Oracle Discoverer provides native connectivity to the Oracle Database Server and Oracle Rdb via Net8. Connection to other databases are supported via ODBC.

Where can one get more information about Oracle Discoverer?

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