Oracle has those. David Fitzjarrell ________________________________ From: "gints.plivna@xxxxxxxxx" <gints.plivna@xxxxxxxxx> To: "andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx" <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 3:35 AM Subject: Re: Are there features on other RDBMS's that it would be good for Oracle to have? Analytic functions and SQL model clause comes to mind... Gints On 2012. gada 29. maijs, at 16:40, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (skipped) a rich report writing capability. I had used a > fairly obscure language called CCL (Cerner Command Language), that had a > lot of nice reporting capabilites, including really useful looping and > conditional statements within the report writing, and SQL is comparatively > crude for such -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l