Oracle Reports

Oracle Reports is a tool for developing reports against data stored in an Oracle database. Oracle Reports consists of Oracle Reports Developer (a component of the Oracle Developer Suite) and Oracle Application Server Reports Services (a component of the Oracle Application Server).

Output formats
Oracle RPT
SQL*ReportWriter
Oracle Reports 1
Oracle Reports 2.5
Oracle Reports 6i
Oracle Reports 9i
Oracle Reports 10g
References

Output formats

The report output can be delivered directly to a printer or saved in the following formats:

HTML

RTF

PDF

XML

Microsoft Excel

Oracle RPT

Oracle RPT was an early, primitive predecessor to SQL*ReportWriter.

SQL*ReportWriter

Character based report writing tool.

The software was purchased by Oracle from a third party

Oracle Reports 1

New GUI mode IDE

Major rewrite

Oracle Reports 2.5

Release April 1995. New Object Navigator. New Toolbars. New Menus.

Still no undos.

Oracle Reports 6i

New features added in 6i:

WebDB integration

XML Output

HTML Parameter Form Extensions

SQL Access to the Reports Server Queue

EXEC_SQL Integration

Oracle Reports 9i

New features added in 9i:

XML report definition

Query types: XML, JDBC, Oracle9i OLAP, text files

Pluggable Data Sources

Java Importer

Oracle9i JDeveloper Integration

Oracle9i SCM Integration

Integration with BI Beans

Oracle9iAS Portal Report Import

Edit Oracle9iAS Discoverer Worksheet Export.

Oracle Reports 10g

New features added in 10g:

New output format SPREADSHEET, output to Microsoft Excel.

Extended HTML formatting customisation

Compliant to HTML 4.01 and XML 1.1 standards...

References

Oracle Reports Wikipedia

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