Re: suggestions for good graphical DB query builder

You appear to be totally disconnected from the real world - probably what 
comes with teaching too long.

If you had any current industrial experience, especially in investment 
banking then you would discover that Access (albeit a pain) and Excel for 
that matter are both successfully being used by sales traders, salesman
and 
analysts throughout that industry as a database tool.

-- 
Tony Rogerson, SQL Server MVP
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"DA Morgan" <damorgan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:1190205788.620403@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> David Segall wrote:
>> carol_marra@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>
>>> We're doing a product comparison for graphical query builders. Would
>>> appreciate
>>> your input on what you like (or don't).
>>>
>>> We're an Oracle shop, but we need connectivity w/ any ODBC compliant
>>> DB.
>>> Also need query result ex****t options (esp Excel), pivot capability,
>>> printable results,
>>> Windows compliant.
>> Microsoft Access?
>
> I can't think of a worse tool.
>
> The last thing Oracle needs is to be connected to an insecure (ODBC)
> tool that could potentially be used to alter data and in which you
> couln't write a decent SQL statement more complex than SELECT *
> FROM t;.
> -- 
> Daniel A. Morgan
> University of Wa****ngton
> damorgan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (replace x with u to respond)
> Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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