Oracle Reports is a tool for developing reports against data stored in an

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. Oracle Reports consists of Oracle Reports Developer (a component of the

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) and Oracle Application Server Reports Services (a component of the

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Output formats

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

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History

Oracle RPT

Oracle RPT was an early, primitive predecessor to SQL*Report Writer. There was no editor or IDE provided and instead the reports were created by editing text files to control the report output.

SQL*Report Writer

* 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 2.0

Oracle Reports 2.5

Release April 1995. New Object Navigator. New Toolbars. New Menus. Still no undos. More stable IDE.

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,

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, Oracle9i

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s * 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

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References

External links

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