Create, Maintain, and Administer Effective Ad Hoc Queries
ISBN: 0072262141
Pages: 1028
Publisher: McGraw
Topic: Oracle
Rating: 
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Oracle Discoverer Handbook covers the release 10.1.2 of Oracle Discoverer. Oracle Discoverer is a very powerful application which can put your companies information in the hands of your users and allow them to query the data using a the Oracle application.
The Oracle Discoverer Handbook covers OracleBI Discoverer Desktop, Workbook Wizard, Viewer, Discoverer Administrator, Portlet Provider, OLAP and Enterprise Manager. The book also contains a two useful sections, one is in the appendix listing the Oracle SQL inbuilt functions, the other is a chapter on answers to FAQ’s.
Oracle Discoverer Handbook begins with an overview and history of Discoverer, it then tells you how to access it and get it all installed and start using it. A large section of the book is given to using the Workbook wizard, which should allow you to do most things with Discoverer. Oracle Discoverer Handbook also details how to create graphs and reports from discoverer queries.
There also many other chapters in the Oracle Discoverer Handbook including the Business Intelligence Discoverer Viewer 10g Release 2, Refining Items, Drilling and Hyper-Drilling, Building Effective Conditions, Query Management, User Preferences, Discoverer OLAP, Configuring Discoverer and How to set up Portal for use with Oracle Discoverer.
There is isn’t a lot this handbook does not include about Discoverer, this a thorough book on Discoverer. If you need to quickly learn about setting up Discoverer and getting it up and running in your workplace then this book could be the only Discoverer book you’ll need to get the job done.