New Discoverer Book

Become an expert in Discoverer Administration

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Book 1 - Building the end user layer

Welcome to the first in a series of new books for the Oracle Administrator.  Written by Michael and Darlene Armstrong-Smith, renowned authors of the highly regarded end-user volume Oracle Discoverer Handbook, this book is guaranteed to be a hit with all administrators. 

We will take you through all of the steps required to build the complete end user layer used in the end-user book.  You will be shown how to install Oracle Discoverer, with complete instructions showing you how to create the tutorial database used in the book.  There will also be a chapter dedicated to using Discoverer on the web, both using it in Plus and Viewer, and using Discoverer inside Portal.

The proposed chapter headings, as of March, 2004, are:

1. Introduction
2. Using OTN and MetaLink
3. Installing the 4.1 Admin edition
4. Installing the 9.0.2 Admin edition
5. Installing the 10g  Admin edition
6. Creating the tutorial database
7. Creating the End User Layer
8. Business Area design
9. The seven habits of highly effective Discoverer administrators
10. End User Maintenance
11. Item Maintenance
12. Modifying the database
13. Building lists of values
14. Building hierarchies and drilling
15. Discoverer and the web
16. Building an end user help system using HTML
17. Appendix 1 - Oracle's Analytic Functions
18. Appendix 2 - Entity Relationship Diagrams
19. Appendix 3 - Tips and tricks

For more information regarding this new book, please contact us