Oracle Reports is a tool for developing reports against data stored in an Oracle database. Oracle Reports consists of Oracle Reports Developer (a component of the Oracle Developer Suite) and Oracle Application Server Reports Services (a component of the Oracle Application Server).

Output formats

The report output can be delivered directly to a printer or saved in the following formats: HTML, RTF, PDF, XML, Microsoft Excel

History

Oracle RPT

Oracle RPT was an early, primitive predecessor to SQL*Report Writer. There was no editor or IDE provided and instead the reports were created by editing text files to control the report output.

SQL*Report Writer

Oracle Reports 1

Oracle Reports 2.0

Oracle Reports 2.5

Release April 1995. New Object Navigator. New Toolbars. New Menus. Still no undos. More stable IDE.

Oracle Reports 6i

New features added in 6i:

Oracle Reports 9i

New features added in 9i:

Oracle Reports 10g

New features added in 10g: