Includes index

Getting started with Discoverer -- An overview of Discoverer -- Users and databases -- Getting started in Discoverer -- The Workbook Wizard: the essential steps -- The Workbook Wizard: the optional steps -- Editing the query -- Formatting the output in Discoverer Desktop and Plus -- Using graphs to present data -- Turning a Discoverer query into a report -- Using Discoverer to analyze data -- Using Discoverer viewer to see your data -- Advanced Discoverer techniques -- Refining items, drilling, and hyper-drilling -- Building effective conditions -- Refining parameters, calculations, sorting, and percentages -- Managing queries -- Setting up user preferences, the toolbar, and working with the Discoverer Administrator -- Using the Discoverer Administration Edition chapter -- Getting starting in the Administration Edition -- Editing the business area -- Interacting with the end user -- Configuring Discoverer -- Advanced Discoverer Administration -- Analytic functions -- Appendixes -- Michael’s gold mine of answers to FAQs -- SQL functions -- Databases and views -- Tutorial database.

Provide secure, immediate access to critical business information from relational and multidimensional data sources across your organization. Optimize this intuitive ad hoc query, reporting, analysis, and web publishing tool for maximum performance. Real-world examples illustrate the powerful analysis, security, and reporting capabilities. Enable business users at all levels to make faster, more-informed decisions with help from this Oracle Press guide--Cover.