Re: SQR / Hyperion SQR Production Reporting
- From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "peter.robson@xxxxxxxxx" <peter.robson@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:18:10 -0700
A long (long) time ago we evaluated SQR.
Perl won, never looked back.
Jared
On Friday, July 15, 2011, Peter Robson <peter.robson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Many (many) years ago I used a report writer product called SQR, which in
> those days was owned and marketed by IBM (I think). It was a really neat
> piece of kit, enabling one to integrate the non-procedural elements of SQL
> within a true procedural language. It was marketed as a report writer, but in
> fact that was selling it drastically short of its true abilities.
>
> I have been looking around for a scripting language for a certain task I want
> to run with Oracle, but nothing came to mind. SQL and PL/SQL won't hack it
> (sic!) on their own. Perl etc probably would, but for me that is a whole new
> learning process. Then I remembered SQR. A little research reveals that the
> product is now owned by Oracle Corporation! Given all the acquisitions Mr
> Ellison has been performing, perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised...
>
> Whatever, it is now known as Hyperion SQR Production Reporting.
>
> Can anyone advise how I can get hold of this product, without having to take
> the whole Hyperion suite on board? The obvious searches have not helped so
> far. Presumably as an Oracle product it must be available for trial download
> somewhere.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
> Edinburgh.
>
>
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