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I have been working on a small scale data warehouse project for a few months along with many other tasks. Following Kimball’s ideas on dimensional modeling and by keeping it simple I had more or less an idea on how to proceed with the construction of the database, data model and how to create the reports (but only in SQL). One guy in management actually wanted to learn SQL and went ahead with SQL Developer (fantastic product, so easy to use that anybody familiar with the layout of the keyboard can use it). But I did not expect the same attitude from the rest. I have to say that I’ve seen many products for making glorified reports, but all of them gave me the impression of being cumbersome to install and not exactly bug free. I did not know any product very well and neither had I the time to start testing them. Earlier I’ve played with Application Express and thought some reports could be created in ApEx, but I had a nagging feeling this would not cover all our needs. ...