Paul,
I FULLY agree. But it's damned nice if that tool does not become an
administrative nightmare. The COGNOS metadata layer, although damned nice will
become just that. Why, because sales folks call a particular data field one
thing and engineers call it something else. and as far as trying to get them to
agree, I'll give a clouder of cats a bath first!
Dick Goulet
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Cognos notwithstanding, isn't the objective in the case of Data
Warehouse/DSS/Reporting/BI (or whatever the latest buzzword is for
generating reports) to give end-users access to the data. These end-users
then generate the own reports, without the need for IT every time they need
a new total on a report?
Sure I understand the need to prevent cartesian products and other queries
from hell, but there are ways to achieve that. I fail to understand why the
end-users shouldn't have access to the data, it is THEIR data, after all,
not the DBA's.
Paul
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Anybody have any experience with "Cognos"? We've got a bhb that thinks its
the solution for giving every end user access to the raw data
(groan...loudly!)... I've argued every which-a-way against the concept, now
I have to fight the specifics....
HELP!
John P Weatherman
Database Administrator
Replacements Ltd.
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