Oracle Discoverer 10g Handbook: Create, Maintain And Administer Effective Ad Hoc Queries

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From the Publisher Completely updated for Oracle Discoverer 10g Release 2, this Oracle Press guide explains how to use Oracle Discoverer -- the ad-hoc query, reporting, analysis, and Web -- publishing tool that empowers business users at all levels of an organization to gain immediate access to Business Intelligence. End users will learn to write queries, use the powerful analysis tools, and generate meaningful reports. Administrators will learn how to configure, edit, and use the analytic functions. Table of Contents 1 An overview of Discoverer 3 2 Users and databases 21 3 Getting started in Discoverer 35 4 The Workbook Wizard : the essential steps 53 5 The Workbook Wizard : the optional steps 105 6 Formatting the output in Discoverer Desktop and Plus 157 7 Using graphs to present data 189 8 Turning a Discoverer query into a report 227 9 Using Discoverer to analyze data 345 10 Business Intelligence Discoverer Viewer 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) 289 11 Refining itetms, drilling, and hyper-drilling 319 12 Building effective conditions 353 13 Refining parameters, calculations, sorting, and percentages 401 14 Query managment 457 15 User preferences, the toolbar, and the Discoverer Administrator 517 16 Introducting Discoverer OLAP 547 17 Getting started in the administration edition 615 18 Editing the business area 651 19 Interacting with the end user 703 20 Configuring Discoverer 741 21 Setting up portal for use with Discoverer 809 22 Summary management 845 App. A Michael's gold mine of answers to FAQs 879 App. B SQL functions