Analyzing and reporting with Discoverer

Some examples of using Discoverer were provided in the first two chapters, giving you some understanding of this Business Intelligence tool. The following sections take a closer look at Discoverer Plus, Discoverer Administrator, and Discoverer Viewer, explaining their features in more detail.

Preparing your working environment with Discoverer Administrator

Before you can start exploring the Discoverer Plus features, though, you need to create a working environment allowing you to look at those features by example. What you'll need is some data stored in the underlying database as well as an EUL making this data available for use in Discoverer. As for the database data, you will use the database already created in the preceding examples. If you've followed the instructions in the Multidimensional data analysis with SQL section of the previous chapter, you should have a database schema with the tables populated with data. If you haven't done it yet, do...